Blue carnations under shipment

Work to ship rare blue carnations, airlifted from Colombia and Ecuador, is under way at a wholesaler company in Shibayama in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 30, 2025, ahead of Mother's Day on May 11. The carnation named Moondust was developed by the horticulture arm of major Japanese whiskey maker Suntory using gene engineering, with sales starting in 1997.