People Found the Answers to Fascinating “What Happens If” Questions

The poem goes, “roses are red,” but that isn’t always the case. What happens if you put a white rose in water with blue food coloring added to it? It turns out that as the flower absorbs the water, the food coloring begins to turn its petals blue! Another way to change a flower’s color more rapidly is to inject food coloring directly into its stem.

It’s undeniably cool to see the results of the process. You definitely don’t see coloration like this in nature! Just like the clear leaf in the chlorine-filled pool from earlier in the article, this flower combines something natural with unnatural elements to create something totally new.