![]() ![]() So until someone can find a reference that solves the mystery, perhaps in one of White’s journals or letters, I’m keeping the true-blue frog theory alive.Ī version of this story first appeared in Explore 36(2), Spring 2014. And even if the original specimen of this frog still existed (it was destroyed during a London bombing raid in World War 2) we’d be none the wiser, because it would still be blue. What we do know from the history of collecting is that strange and curious specimens tend to be collected more often than normal varieties. In addition to beautiful purple flowers, many trees have lush summer foliage that turns orange, yellow, purple, and red shades in the fall. Many of these small purple-flowering trees are versatile landscaping plants that can grow as multi-stemmed shrubs. (By the way, you find the same thing with cicadas, where the Green Grocer, Yellow Monday and Blue Moon are all colour variations of the same species.) The best purple flowering trees are magnolias, redbuds, mountain laurels, and chaste trees. his name is Cujo ( because as lazy as he is, he lunges at his food like a mad dog LOL ) we keep him in a 12x12x18 terrarium. He is a juvinile sized ( 3 inch long ) whites tree frog. Like many other tree frogs, White’s tree frogs have the ability to change color depending on environmental conditions. we recently purchased our very first tree frog. There are also bright yellow versions that lack the blue pigment. My husband and I are new to frog ownership. Blue frogs occur naturally in the wild (as the above photo shows) because of chance mutations in the gene for the yellow pigment, leaving just the blue to be expressed. Scientists in the ‘it was the alcohol’ camp say the description was probably written by a British scientist, not by White, and that White (months away on the other side of the world) probably didn’t get to see the book before it was published.īut to my mind, it’s quite feasible that White actually collected a blue specimen. The illustration, by noted museum artist Sarah Stone (see above), shows two large blue frogs and two smaller ones, one on its back to show the grey speckled surface ‘beneath’. It was not officially described until 1790, when it appeared in White’s Journal of a Sea Voyage to New South Wales, as ‘Blue Frog, speckled beneath with greyish the feet divided into four toes the hind feet webbed.’ Use a hygrometer to measure the humidity and make necessary adjustments to create a suitable environment for your frogs. If the humidity is too low or too high, it can cause the frogs to turn brown. The problem is we don’t know whether the frog was green or blue when it went into the preserving jar in 1788. White tree frogs require a humidity level of around 50 to 70 to maintain healthy skin. ![]()
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