Natural History of The Enigma — by Eduardo Kac — … is a plantimal, a new life form I created and that I call Edunia, a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of myself and Petunia …

Developed between 2003 and 2008 … (t)he Edunia has red veins on light pink petals and a gene of mine is expressed on every cell of its red veins, i.e., my gene produces a protein in the veins only. The gene was isolated and sequenced from my blood. The petal pink background, against which the red veins are seen, is evocative of my own pinkish white skin tone. The result of this molecular manipulation is a bloom that creates the living image of human blood rushing through the veins of a flower…” More >>