Biological artist Eduardo Kac has combined his own DNA with that of a petunia to create a “plantimal” flower that he calls Edunia. The Edunia expresses Kac’s DNA exclusively in its red veins.

From the Artist website:

The central work in the “Natural History of the Enigma” series is a plantimal, a new life form Kac created and that he calls “”, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of Kac and Petunia. The Edunia expresses Kac’s DNA exclusively the red veins of the flower. The gene Kac selected is responsible for the identification of foreign bodies. In this work, it is precisely that which identifies and rejects the other that the artist integrates into the other, thus creating a new kind of self that is partially flower and partially human.

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