An employee of Suntory holds a bunch of genetically modified roses at a press conference in Tokyo.

Suntory to put world's first blue roses on sale in Japan Nov 3

Wednesday 21st October, 06:02 AM JST

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doombird at 11:31 AM JST - 21st October

These are quite pretty, and though not technically blue, still a noticeably novel color for roses. Still, I can't help but feel they should be putting more funding into those glow-in-the-dark kittens I've been hearing about... I mean come on! Glow-in-the-dark kittens!
timeon at 12:05 PM JST - 21st October

I appreciate more the employee. Way to go Suntory
Yelnats at 12:49 PM JST - 21st October

Why do they keep saying these things are blue? They are lilac. And street signals are green, not blue. Must be something with the rods and cones in peoples eyes here.
Cos at 01:46 PM JST - 21st October

They are the first in the world ? My grand-dad always had some of the same shade. My neighbour even got some that were really marine blue.

The only novelty is they produce them industrially, as before they had to graft each rose tree one by one... or is it the 1st time in the world Suntory tries to rip you off thousands of yens for something you can't drink ?
kokorocloud at 02:07 PM JST - 21st October

They're very pretty... despite not really being blue, haha.
nandakandamanda at 02:25 PM JST - 21st October

Why can't we have green ones?
stirfry at 03:55 PM JST - 21st October

30 bucks for a flower...ok thanks...no, really, thanks alot
flatearther at 06:44 PM JST - 21st October

They're not really that blue, but I would still like to buy a few. They're quite pretty. :)
nemoflow at 08:42 PM JST - 21st October

Not the first time colour has been messed up in Japan...

Blue traffic signals...
uggla at 09:50 PM JST - 21st October

"World first"????? I've bought blue roses in the past and they were really blue, the florist that I bought them from fed white roses with blue food dye which made the leaves go blue over time. And if I remember correctly a dozen of them costed less than £10.
Sarge at 10:21 PM JST - 21st October

"Suntory"

For relaxing times, make it Suntory times.
marushka at 12:32 AM JST - 22nd October

it is really pretty, and not totaly blue, agreed with flaterther:) i would buy some
TokyoJake at 06:01 AM JST - 22nd October

Good luck! I'm defenitely going to buy some someday.
Ke11iente at 06:12 AM JST - 22nd October

Those are lavender or mauve, not blue. Give me a truly blue one and I might be willing to shell out that much money for one. :P (But probably not)
peachy871 at 06:16 PM JST - 22nd October

There is absolutely nothing new about that colour of rose. I used to grow some of my own back home...Blue Moon was the name of them. They were actually a bit closer to an actual blue than those. And 2000 yen?? For one flower?? They aren't that novel, really! You can find "blue" roses lots of places!!!