Emerging from a long straight stem, slender green leaves hang vertically downward from the center and droop around the stem. Above them, white curling petals dance in bloom. Unlike most petals, these long white petals are shaped like a bean but are open, and at their top, taper from thin curl into what looks like another petal entirely, but is in fact an attached leaf-shape, light yellow in color. It is as if another petal grew out of the white bean petal, but are all attached as a unit. From the center, long, straight styli stick out and transition from a dark maroon to a pink to white.

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Model, Theobroma Cacao

This is a model. It is dated 1875–1898. Its medium is wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers, gelatin, glass and bone glue beads, cloth, metallic thread, horsehair, hemp, silk threads, paint, and shellac varnish. It is a part of the department.

It is credited Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Drawing, Botanical Sketches

Drawing, Botanical Sketches
graphite on grey laid paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-869-c

Textile, Garden Path

Textile, Garden Path
silk.
Gift of Marian Clayden.
1991-87-1

Paxton's Magazine Of Botany, Vol. 12

Paxton's Magazine Of Botany, Vol. 12
lithography on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, QK1 .P342.
139.2018.10

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 50.8 × 20.3 × 21.9 cm (20 in. × 8 in. × 8 5/8 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Botanical Lessons.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUqxQ/
Accession Number 22.2018.13
Object ID 2318793590