Goethe's Urpflanze Size:L Stoneware pot by our friend

Stoneware pot by our friend Jonathan Cross

These pots were in the hottest part of the kiln and in result have color variation

It depicts a painterly take on that semi-cryptic Argentine mountain dweller

This is a rare offering of an ancient seed grown specimen from seed collected 25 years ago by our friend on an expedition to Chile with Rudolph Schulz

Goethe's Urpflanze Size:L Stoneware pot by our friendGerman romantic poet Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe coined the term urpflanze" (tr. original plant). He believed that every plant on Earth could trace its origins back to a single template specimen, an urpflanze, sort of like the botanical equivalent of an Adam & Eve. This ur plant was a self repeating sequence of metamorphosesfrom seed to cotyledon, from cotyledon to leaf, from leaf to sepal, from sepal to petal, stamen, pistil, fruit, and seed . And