Blue Cyclamen

November 9, 2017

TOKYO- A new brand of blue cyclamen named "Edo no Ao" (Edo's blue) is unveiled to the press by Suntory Flowers Ltd., a unit of major Japanese food and beverage group Suntory Holdings Ltd., in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, November 9, 2017.

Shipments of the cyclamen with many indigo petals will start on November 14, mainly for gifts. "It took 10 years to create the primary blue color," said Yasuhiro Takahashi, president of Taiei Kaen, the flower farm in Narita that developed and produced the blue cyclamen. Jiji Press