Glowing Petunias: How to Avoid Scams when Buying Latest Garden Trend

Glowing petunias: How to avoid scams when buying latest garden trend

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new trendy plant is making its way into West Michigan gardens this spring. They're called firefly glow-in-the-dark petunias. Plant expert Rick Vuyst explained how they're created. “There are bioluminescent qualities to some fungis or mushrooms in the landscape and so bioengineers have been able, genetically, to take the glowing form or genes of that mushroom, put it into a petunia and this has been a hot item this …

'Seeing is believing': Revolutionary Firefly Petunia engineered in Idaho

A glowing-green flower bud may seem like something straight out of science fiction; however, modern biotechnology has made the Firefly Petunia a reality.