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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
(www.zmescience.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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Bioluminescent plants exist as a commercial product. You can order them right now. I ordered some of these myself. (Though I'm terrible with plants. I didn't water them enough, and they died.)
But this isn't vaporware. You can actually order them, and I have. What is vaporware however is the idea of using these as streetlights. With the petunias I had, if you took them into a dark room and let your eyes adjust, you could see a faint blue glow off of some regions of the petunia's petals.
But these are true bioluminescent plants. It took adding multiple genetic alterations to get the petunias to carry their bioluminescence from generation to generation, but this has been done.
Very neat! It's cool that you got to experience them. Looks like they are sold out. I'm sure I can web search something like them if I want to try them!
Yeah from the site it seems they're using a seasonal model.