White BANEBERRY

🤍 WHITE BANEberry

Actaea pachypoda

Cabinet of Forbidden Curiosities | Poisonous Flora

Delicate white berries. Dark reputation.

White Baneberry, or Actaea pachypoda, is a woodland perennial native to eastern North America. It produces clusters of distinctive white berries, each marked with a dark spot that gives them their wonderfully unsettling appearance.

The berries contain cardioactive compounds and are poisonous if eaten. The plant has therefore earned its place among the more sinister specimens in the Cabinet. It is particularly memorable because its berries look almost unnaturally perfect, like something deliberately placed there rather than grown.

Its common name, baneberry, is rather refreshingly straightforward. When a plant's name basically says this may be your downfall, we tend to listen. 🖤

This miniature specimen is entirely handmade from polymer clay, recreating the distinctive white berries and dark markings without containing any real poisonous plant material.

🖤 Handmade miniature specimen

🖤 Polymer clay construction

🖤 Presented in a specimen jar

🖤 Inspired by genuine botanical history and folklore

🖤 Part of the Cabinet of Forbidden Curiosities

🖤 Perfect for gothic, witchy and botanical collections

They look like little porcelain eyes. They are not looking back. Probably. 👁️🌿

Decorative item only. Contains no real White Baneberry or poisonous botanical material.