page_title: Dianthus caryophyllus
section_title: Colors
hierarchical_section_title: Dianthus caryophyllus / Cultivation and uses / Colors
caption_attribution_description: English: A Carnation Moondust 日本語: 青紫色カーネーション「ムーンダスト」
context_page_description: Dianthus caryophyllus, commonly known as the carnation or clove pink, is a species of Dianthus. It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for the last 2,000 years.
context_section_description: Carnations do not naturally produce the pigment delphinidin, thus a blue carnation cannot occur by natural selection or be created by traditional plant breeding. It shares this characteristic with other widely sold flowers like roses, lilies, tulips, chrysanthemums and gerberas.
  Around 1996 a company, Florigene, used genetic engineering to extract certain genes from petunia and snapdragon flowers to produce a blue-mauve carnation, which was commercialized as Moondust.  In 1998 a violet carnation called Moonshadow was commercialized. As of 2004 three additional blue-violet/purple varieties have been commercialized.
caption: The transgenic cultivar 'Moondust'
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