Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium silver pin cushion too--and a good sized one

too--and a good sized one at 70 1/2" x 40 1/4" (so almost 6 x  3 1/2 feet)

Really a beautiful piece from top to bottom

Though it is fairly rare that all 24 pegs would be needed

Detailed photos give truest sense of color

Bisque with graphic black details as well as a faint orange stain on its beak and webbed feet

Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium silver pin cushion too--and a good sized oneI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find this and one other (listed separately) herbarium pages, I'd guess removed from a larger volume. This one is Tiarella Cordifolio (or foamflower), a flowering