
In the City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane.
A rather mysterious contraption by Dr. Cornelius Dempster in the 19th century is The Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant). The germinator is the last remnant of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Achaemienus Ambulatii Germination and Research Facility. Built in 1872, it hoped to bring the Pony Plant, a terrestrial bromeliad and the world’s only known walking plant back from the brink of extinction.
The robust, ambulatory ‘flowers’ could support the weight of a small child. It is perhaps unsurprising that its popularity in gardens and sideshows around the world lead to its eventual demise.
Ok, and it seems like my Drop Bears, all that is quite a hoax also and correct attribution is as follows -
"Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant) in the City Botanic Gardens, is a sculpture in my "imagined history" series according to Brisbane sculptor and artist Russell Anderson in 2014".