Water Hyacinth in a Glass Bowl — Vintage Botanical Postcard

A cluster of pink water hyacinth blooms floats in a glass bowl, their spiky petals and dark peacock-eye markings rendered in careful botanical detail against a soft yellow background. The catalog plate labels the plant plainly at the bottom: “Water Hyacinth.”

• Size: 10×15 cm
• Paper density: 350 g/m²

Once sold to gardeners as a novelty for ponds and water gardens, it's an easy plant to explain if this one travels to a postcrossing partner abroad.