Delphinidin 3-rutinoside
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.1 nm. A blackcurrant is about seven million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Delphinidin, for short. Also tulipanin.
- Height
- 1.5 nm. The sugary tail won’t keep still.
- Weight
- 1.0 zeptogram
- Build
- Flat three-ring head, two sugars for a tail.
- Color
- Red in lemon juice. Turns blue in baking soda, then gives up.
- Habits
- Loves water. Survives the juice factory.
- Origins
- Named after a flower named after a dolphin.
- Suspected
- Its bush harbors a fungus that kills white pines. Banned nationwide for decades.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked CURRANT in the freezer at HQ.
of them in a single blackcurrant, give or take.
Bushes vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Delphinidin 3-rutinoside, No. 6. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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