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Slideshow: The Lifelike Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
Slideshow: The Lifelike Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka,The father-and-son duo, the last generations of a long line of renowned glassworkers, crafted thousands of realistic models of plants and sea creatures.

Slideshow: The Lifelike Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka






Glass-blown and sculpted model of the apple (Malus pumila) marked by the telltale blemishes of an apple scab infection caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis.

THE WARE COLLECTION OF BLASCHKA GLASS MODELS OF PLANTS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY HERBARIA / HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY © PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

In addition to healthy organisms, Rudolf Blaschka crafted models of plants infected by common pathogens to serve as educational tools. One example is this apple (Malus pumila) from 1932 marked by the telltale blemishes of an apple scab infection caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis.

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