Printing flowers

Today, one can print objects in 3D in various materials, from plastic to rubber. A new emerging field is that of biological 3D printing. The main idea is to print specific tailor-made organs from the cells of a specific patients. This can reduce the implanting complications, as well as optimize the properties of the implanted organ, such as shape and size. However, for some reason, 3D biological printing has focused on humans. The reason is obvious since it can save lives and have a huge market.

I want to suggest a new market, e.g. printing flowers. If there is such a technology to print human organs, I believe that it can be simpler to print plants and flowers. Think of printing a flower with a unique shape and color; designing your own plant and shrubbery; choosing whatever you want from the fauna world.

The market for this is, I believe, quite large. In the entertainment market, consider a flower with the petals spelling your girlfriend's name or a single custom-made flower that has your fiancé's unique combination of colors.

In the biological market, this can induce a unique combination of traits in a single organism, instead of genetic recombination, one can print out a single plant from several plant's cell types, thus for a mind-boggling example, print a delicate plant that produces important proteins surrounded by a tough bark from an oak tree.

In these 3D printing days, imagination is the limit; why confine it to humans?