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No! Aqua! Flowers! Ever!
🕑 Added 2021-08-19 19:16:01 +0000 UTCThis is a default replacement for the aqua flowers and makes them blue. I also replaced the white flowers with larger and brighter white flowers. I find these flowers jarring and annoying, so I made this replacement a couple months ago and have been pretty happy with it.
I love aqua, I love a turquoise stone, warm shallow seas, and the animal life that occasionally sports the color. You know what isn't aqua? Flowers. Blue flowers are already pretty uncommon and rely on the metal ions in soil to modify the natural purple of the anthocyanin flavanoid to a bluer tone. This is why most blue flowers have a purple tone or tinge to them. The same flavanoid that makes a cornflower blue makes roses appear red and pink. The other main pigments in plants are chlorophyll (green) and carotenoids (yellow, orange, and red). Anyone who has ever tried to mix aqua with blue and yellow water colors knows that it is impossible. If you want to paint something aqua, you gotta start with aqua.
