Prehistoric Plants

[SidB]

The Favorite Island diorama from the BHI is remarkable too, though not a source of "greenery." But the price ...!

[Halichoeres]

These models from Aurora have been mentioned in this thread, but here's a couple of photos:


Looks like a pretty good match for Cycadeoidea or another bennettitalean


This doesn't resemble any tree I can identify but it seems like they might have been going for Lepidodendron (My copy has broken pegs; you should be able to attach more foliage to it)

[JurassicTakedown]

So happy to have found this thread as my daughter was asking me "which of the trees we have are from the permian" and I kinda knew most popular models were from the Jurassic/cretaceous. A bit sad there are no "older" trees made by a big company to purchase in bulk for displays/dioramas/playing in general

[SidB]

When I look at my current specimens from CollectA and Safari, none terribly recent, I can't help but think that they must have been expensive to make. That, coupled with chronically low demand, would account, IMO, for the scarcity of appropriate flora available for our displays and dioramas. Fabrication by the collector would be one answer.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

So happy to have found this thread as my daughter was asking me "which of the trees we have are from the permian" and I kinda knew most popular models were from the Jurassic/cretaceous. A bit sad there are no "older" trees made by a big company to purchase in bulk for displays/dioramas/playing in general

Wasn't the Safari Fern Tree based on a Permian plant?

[Halichoeres]

So happy to have found this thread as my daughter was asking me "which of the trees we have are from the permian" and I kinda knew most popular models were from the Jurassic/cretaceous. A bit sad there are no "older" trees made by a big company to purchase in bulk for displays/dioramas/playing in general

Wasn't the Safari Fern Tree based on a Permian plant?

Yeah, it's a pretty good match for Psaronius, except for the backward-unfurling fiddleheads.

[Flaffy]

So happy to have found this thread as my daughter was asking me "which of the trees we have are from the permian" and I kinda knew most popular models were from the Jurassic/cretaceous. A bit sad there are no "older" trees made by a big company to purchase in bulk for displays/dioramas/playing in general

Wasn't the Safari Fern Tree based on a Permian plant?

Yeah, it's a pretty good match for Psaronius, except for the backward-unfurling fiddleheads.

TBH looking back, it's a really weird error to make considering we still have plenty of extant tree ferns.

[Halichoeres]

It's funny, the little fern in the Hypsilophodon diorama by CollectA has the same problem.

[Newt]

I think it's a natural instinct for artists, that the curve of the crozier should be a tighter version of the gravity-induced curve of the mature frond. I know that's how I drew ferns when I was a kid, before it was pointed out to me that this was incorrect. (Yes, I drew a lot of ferns when I was a kid. Don't all children love to draw pteridophytes?)

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

I think it's a natural instinct for artists, that the curve of the crozier should be a tighter version of the gravity-induced curve of the mature frond. I know that's how I drew ferns when I was a kid, before it was pointed out to me that this was incorrect. (Yes, I drew a lot of ferns when I was a kid. Don't all children love to draw pteridophytes?)

I loved drawing them too! I don't think I ever paid attention to which way they curled. I'm sure it probably changed from drawing to drawing.

[Faelrin]

I used to draw ferns as a kid too, but then again, where I lived back then (my birth state of NH) they were plentiful in the woods I used to go out and explore, so perhaps that was expected? Can't remember if I ever drew them correctly though, with how long ago that was, but I know I've come across a number of them that were still curled up and served as inspiration before, among the older ones.

[Halichoeres]

Some flat metal plants by Schmalkalder:

Cordaites


? cf. Jurinodendron


Sigillaria


unspecified horsetail


tree fern, cf. Psaronius (with plausibly-shaped fiddlehead)


? cf. Lepidodendron

[Newt]

Interesting! Is there modeling on both sides, or is the reverse blank?

[Halichoeres]

@Newt they're two sided! More photos and the rationales for some of my IDs here:
http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3390.msg291626#msg291626

[EmperorDinobot]

I *NEED* these plants now.


All of them.

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

Finally a new entry for this list! And from a Jurassic Park set no less. It's hard to see this leaf in the movie, although a cut scene visible in one of the original teasers shows Ellie Satler plucking it from the plant, and just before the Brachiosaurus scene, she can be heard telling Alan "This species of Veriforman has been extinct since the Cretaceous Period! I mean, this can't possibly be... what?"

[Halichoeres]

Too bad it's made up. It's almost as fictional as Indominus.