Red Leaf Blue Leaf

A plant that changes its color tint based on the gender norms its owner follows. The plant “reads” a person's gender by interpreting their pheromones. Pheromones are hormones that can be picked up with scent. They are the reason bees can communicate with each other, the reason a man might be attracted to one women over another. Naturally, male and female human beings produce different hormones, which means they produce different pheromones as well. For men, pheromones become more potent when building muscle. For women, their pheromones are stronger during menstruation, and can be picked up by other females’ olfactory senses and may influence when their own menstruation happens. For humans, the pheromones we sense are mostly limited. Through the development of language and technology, our olfactory senses have become futile. Due to limited research, there is no telling how we communicate with other human beings, plants or animals through pheromones. In Red Leaf Blue Leaf, a person’s plant would turn red if it senses estratetraenol, a female pheromone, or blue if sensing androsenone and androstadienone, two male pheromones. Because some girls are more girly than others, and some males are more masculine than others, there are many different possibilities for what color a person’s plant could end up as. Results will vary, satisfaction is not guaranteed, and one may experience embarrassment or anxiety upon someone else speculating their plant.

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