The flowers of the roses have the capability of changing colours to seven different hues and displaying luminosity in certain lights. The colour mutation is triggered by the ambient temperatures in the flowers’ environment.
The roses are already on sale in parts of Chiang Mai and are expected to be among the thousands of different flowers on show at this weekend’s city flower festival. In South Korea, these roses are a very popular Valentine’s Day gift.
This tradition is expected to arrive in Chiang Mai also and florists have increased prices to THB60 a stem. This is a higher price than last week and at least six times the cost of a regular pink or red rose.
BS Innovation’s Pattanakitikul says the process of how to create these super roses is copyright protected. It takes about 80 days for the roses to reach maturity and botanists in the area are already working on ways of applying the technology to Thailand’s signature orchids.
Mutating rose flowers bloom in Chiang Mai
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A budding entrepreneur has imported the technology to produce roses that change colour to the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. BS Innovation proprietor Siripong Pattanakitikul brought the know-how of how to grow the mutating flowers from South Korea.