The leaves and petals of these plants were shaped from glass.
Look closely: the veins, colours and delicate forms were carefully recreated by hand.
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Flowers made of glass—even the rotten fruit
Father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made thousands of botanical glass models for Harvard between 1886 and 1936.
They were teaching tools: lifelike plants students could examine throughout the year.
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Flowers made of glass—even the rotten fruit
They even recreated rotting fruit and diseased leaves.
The brown rot on this apple was deliberately modelled. They preserved the details of decay in glass.
