Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, Plate 16

Scientific illustration and theatrical landscape meet in a flower portrait designed to look both precise and spectacular.

What to notice

Study the plant’s carefully described buds and leaves, then compare that precision with the imagined scenery surrounding it.

Discover

This print belongs to The Temple of Flora, an ambitious botanical publication shaped by Enlightenment classification and global plant collecting. Accuracy in the specimen is paired with a deliberately invented setting.