This Rare Blue Flower Survives 2–5 Years in the Harsh Himalayan Cold to Bloom for a Few Days

Look around you for a moment.The sky is blue. The ocean looks blue.But when it comes to living things, that colour almost disappears. Very few plants or animals are truly blue. Most of what we see as blue in nature isn’t even a pigment. It’s light playing tricks on the eye. Take a butterfly, for instance. Its wings don’t carry blue dye. Tiny structures on the surface bend and scatter light in a way that makes them look blue. The same happens in some birds and fish. Even among flowers, blue is rare. Less than 10 percent of flowering plants produce blue blooms. So when a flower grows in the w...