Tree Trunk with Parasitical Plants, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin ChurchMay–August 1865

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vertical rectangle with two parastical plants growing from a gnarled protrusion on a tree trunk, possibly a night-blooming cereus growing out of a duck-ant's nest.

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Title: Tree Trunk with Parasitical Plants, Jamaica
Creator: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Date Created: May–August 1865
Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
Medium: Graphite on white paper
Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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