Botanical model of a Delphinium – Robert and Reinhold Brendel

Botanical model of a Delphinium by Robert and Reinhold Brendel.
Paper-mâcher and wood.
1900.
Germany.
? 46 cm.

Paper-mâché botanical model of a delphinium consolida flower. The delphinium is a flower in the Ranunculaceae family.

The model of delphinium consolida appears in the catalogue Preisliste über Botanische Modelle... von R. Brendel of 1900, p. 18, no. 159, the fifth section of the Giftgewächse (Poisonous Plants).

As indicated in the catalogue, the calyx and corolla are detachable.

The delphinium consolida is also documented in Philipp Gönner’s Brendels Blütenbiologische Wandtafeln.

Sources

Preisliste über Botanische Modelle gefertigt und herausgegegeben von R. Brendel, Berlin, 1900.