That fake fruit in the wooden bowls that hotels love to decorate their lobbies with never looks quite right. No, apparently it takes nature to make a fake that looks even better than the real thing.
That turns out to be the case with the amazing berry of the Pollia condensata. A physicist in the UK was looking at the reflectivity of tulips and buttercups when a colleague at Cambridge University told him to check out the berry from a tropical plant called Pollia condensata.