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For years, photographs have circulated purporting to show the rare and little-known blue strawberry: These images are frequently accompanied by a sales pitch for blue strawberry seeds, and a promise that those seeds will grow into a blue fruit similar to the ones shown above. Here's one such listing from the web site New Chic: No matter what seeds you plant, however, they will not grow into a blue strawberry plant. All of these images started out as photographs of regular old red strawberries before they were digitally altered to appear blue: These blue strawberry images have also been attached to a rumor that they were genetically modified by scientists in order to create a freeze-resistant strawberry: There is a very small element of truth to this claim. Researchers did attempt to introduce an antifreeze gene from an Arctic flounder into strawberries in the late 1990s in order to create a more freeze-resistant fruit: However, there is no evidence that this actually created a blue strawberry, photographs of the resulting product are not readily available online, and there are no credible reports of these genetically altered strawberries ever being produced on a large scale. If you encounter a photograph of a blue strawberry on the internet, it most likely grew out of Photoshop, not a seed.
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