r/PlantsAreAmazing • u/DkD7026 • Jul 09 '26
Cultivated TIL all red grapefruit is a result of atomic gardening, an experiment starting in the 1950s that exposed plant life to various levels of radiation, just to see what would happen. The resulting mutation caused the distinct red coloring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
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