The Field Museum's models are unique because of the wide range of plants that they depict and their utter fidelity to natural form. Between 1909 and 1968, the Stanley Field Plant Reproduction Laboratory turned out hundreds of display plants from wax, latex, wire, glass, plastic and cellulose acetate.
Tibouchina model
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Milton Copulos, plant model maker, trimming model leaves for the Vanilla plant model (pre-1920).
Today, with roughly one-third of all the plant families in the world represented, Plants of the World is the most complete display of botanical models to be found anywhere in the world.

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Model of Tibouchina granulosa, the Flower of Lent

Plants of the World Exhibition
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