There used to be a lot of hemp farmers. Lots of things were made from hemp. Maybe that's where the design came from, and it was still a fairly common crop.

Fr exactly how vintage bc hemp was major in ye olden days

Hemp is humans first farmed food. Seeds found with cavemen!

Hey y’all art historian here! Sometimes artists will take liberties with botanic designs because they couldn’t have the specimen in front of them. Wanted to mention just so y’all don’t pull your hair out

This is exactly why I’m glad I live in the age of the internet lol. Almost any visual I need right at hand to paint.

Could be cinquefoil, or strawberry with oddly narrow leaves

Looks like a cinquefoil to me too. Maybe Potentilla simplex?

It is actually very likely that they are cannabis leaves. Depending on how old it is, hemp was one of the most widespread crops in the americas around 100 or so years ago

Also in Europe it has been very popular for a very long time, my fathers village grew and processed hemp for all their cloth and rope. He said how the fishes used to swim upside down when it was being soaked in the river (he said they were ok, they didn't die or anything and would go back to normal after)

Hemp was only prevalent in America only because it was used as cordage to bind together things made from cotton. Stitching in bags and whatnot. This looks exactly like Cliniquefoil (I know i spelled it wrong who cares) the bloom especially, I saw one in the field 2 days ago and was doing some research it was pretty neat.

Possibly creeping cinquefoil? Look at the picture

So you don't call it creeping buttercup like I do... (uk)

Looks really close, and it would make sense, being as that it's considered a herb, as well

either sativa with a random generic flower (similar to strawberry flowers, or those in the buttercup family) or sulfur cinquefoil. the leaves of that plant look like weed leaves and the flowers are kind of similar

Maybe it's meant the be flax flower and this tray is designed to celebrate fiber farmers.

What about a cleome leaf?

That is Northern lights, Cannabis Indica.

They're the same picture

No...

unexpectedoffice

This is the way.

Rough-Fruited Cinquefoil

Sulfur cinquefoil is my guess.

I think youve got it.

It looks like some type of cinquefoil.

Looks like it is meant to be a type of cinquefoil, the leaves resemble Potentilla recta.

Creeping Cinquefoil flower and leaf perhaps?!!

My guess, based on the fact that these are probably an engravers botanically inaccurate approximation of plants, is that maybe this is meant to be Japanese maple leaves and cherry blossoms. Without knowing more about who and where the wedding was, my very uneducated guess is that this might be a piece of not particularly enchanting Japonisme.

We also have to take into account that not all art has accurate depictions of amounts of leaves/flower shape/ etc.

If those are cannabis leaves, I'm a person who owns shoes.

Stop, chuckling takes too much energy at 2.30am 🤣😂🤣

It’s definitely cannabis. Its been around for a while. Reminds me of a quote. “Every generation believes they discovered the blowjob.”

Cannabis flowers don't look like that. This is cinquefoil or similar

It’s a cinquefoil. A species in the rose family. It really doesn’t look like weed if you google image search it

Cinquefoil.

First guess is cinquefoil, and maybe even kenaf? Would even say a Texas star hibiscus?

Looks very much like Texas star hibiscus in my opinion too.

They look like strawberry flowers. But those are definitely not strawberry leaves. Maybe the artist was using creative license?

This reminds me of when we went on holiday and my mum bought a t shirt with three leaves in orange, green and black and I (a 14 year old) had to point out they were cannabis. She just thought they were neat.

Hemp leaves

Rose family. cinquefoil can have similar leaves

OP, i think you have to accept that you have a dank wedding dish

Japanese Maple Leaves

Artists often aren’t depicting any particular actual flower, sometimes they just make stuff up or combine features from multiple plants. It’s possible that’s the case here.

Wild potentilla - potentilla simplex. The flowers are yellow and the plant spreads by long running stems. Has deep roots that are really hard to get out of my lawn

Maybe, Eranthis hyemalis

Damiana

I'm thinking it could be a texas star, maybe spiderflower, but I don't think so.

yep, team hibiscus is way up thread hibiscus coccineus maybemaybemaybe?

I am so incredibly jealous of your vintage electric lettuce wedding dish honestly lmao

Right? It is very lovely regardless of flower and leaf type. Do you know any backstory cuz I am bitter jealous and nosey too😅

Hemp

Possibly Vitex Agnus castus, but looks like hemp

If the flowers go with the leaves then they might be a variety of hibiscus.

hibiscus coccineus i am with you on team hibiscus for surely the plate would have flower and leaf from one plant? maybe?

That’s weed

I also think cleome, for the leaves. I think the flowers being on separate stems suggests they are a separate plant from the leaves (I vote dianthus).

I looked up “leaves that look like cannabis” and found the kenaf hibiscus plant. However the flowers are different and the leaf count varies from 3-7 lobes. Not sure this helps, but thought is was interesting

I’d love to own that dish! Reminiscent of my wild days. It’s weed.

That's well fed weed/hemp

That is a cannabis leaf without question

Pretty sure it's hemp, not cannabis. Both are completely different plants.

Did the dish belong to Bob Marley? Then it's probably cannabis.

The flowers have a bit of a look of "buttercups" which is very vague because many things all around the world are called that. Simple five petal flowers aren't uncommon at all, and maybe it's some kind of flax?

Those are definitely pot leaves, and some flower. Doesn't necessarily have to be the same plant.

Japanese Maple

But those aren't Japanese Maple flowers. Of course that doesn't rule it out, but the flowers look like Cherry

That's what I thought as well

Looks like

It might be Japanese Maple.

Japanese Maple?

Shout out to Dupont and Hearst for making hemp illegal. Plastic is awesome.

Happy cake day!

Cleome and lupins can be suspicious when young. But its probably Hemp foliage with some lil flowers. Its a very pretty plant.

For the leaves I'd say either Cannabis or Cassava. For the flower I'd say Cosmos.

Japanese maple leaf looks pretty similar to pot leaf

I know weed when I see it

Japanese maple.

It’s not hemp or weed, the flowers are all off.

The flower is similar to Coreopsis nuecensis or C. grandiflora.

Japanese maple have leaves like that, and maple trees do have blossoms, so most likely a Japanese maple.

That ain’t hemp. It is very much hemps cousin cannabis. How do I know? Because hemp next to flattened poppy flowers makes no sense. Cannabis next to poppy flowers makes all the sense and the other flower is a flattened opium poppy.

those flowers are absolutely not poppies

I'm surprised no one has suggested a cleome leaf. They used to be very popular flowers. I'd say that or cinquefoil.

That's super duper like sativa leaves. Maybe it's from hemp times? Like before prohibition started?

That’s a marijuana leaf

My guess is anemone?

That's what I thought too. Looks similar to Anemonoides ranunculoides.

Marijuana and daisies

Def not daisies

Definitely cannabis

That's definitely the devils lettuce

Cleome or Spider Flower

Yes strawberries. Those flowers are strawberry blooms.

Cosmos

I asked something like this before and got downvoted out of earth because apparently it doesn't exist.

Japanese maple tree?

Japanese red maple tree leaves look very similar to pot. Maybe it’s that. Just a thought.

Actually it depends on the cannabis plant,

My guess is strawberry 🍓

canadian red maple leaf

Looks like tickseed (coreopsis) to me, both flower and leaves.

My guess is that it’s a completely random artistic interpretation of a leaf.

the flowers makes me remember strawberry

Strawberry

We have wild strawberry that looks like this in michigan.

Similar to Cleome

Cleome!

that looks like weed

Hehe i think we all know ‘,:) cool find op

I have never used Cannabis, but I’m old enough to have seen lots of it, and depictions of it. And if that’s not marijuana, it is putting up a good imitation of it.

Sir that’s weed and what might be poppy flowers

Delphinium would be my guess.

Nah. I work with Delph every day bc I’m a florist. Neither the leaves, nor flowers, are close to delphinium.

It’s definitely marijuana leaves. They’re pretty distinct

Looks a little like California buckeye

I would say it’s a poppy flower, the smaller flowers by the base looks like a young poppy flower before the leaves flatten out and spread. Would make a little more sense to have cannabis and poppy together but I could be wrong.

That would be cool if it was indeed poppy with cannabis

Hibiscus

Yes! Everyone look at the flower on the plate. Certain varieties of hibiscus (coccineus) have marijuana-like leaves

That is def pot.. Specifically sativa plant. Sativa plants have 9 leaves and indicas have 7. The less widely know plant is the Ruderalis which has 5.

The flower almost looks like a California poppy

If it's not cannabis it's most likely Japanese maple especially since the other flowers are cherry blossoms

First would be cannabis second guess would be buckeye

Looks like sativa specifically- where is it from?

Dude... WEED lmao

Is there a makers mark on the dish?

Yes there is but i'm not sure how to attach it??? (i know absolutely nothing about posting on reddit & i cant figure out how to attach or add updates? halp? )

Moonflower maybe

the flowers look like coreopsis

Could be red maple leaves

Maple leafs with cherry blossoms

Chinese maple or maybe ginseng

It reminds me of Japanese maple but the leaves have 7 parts :(

Apparently the Japanese maple called "Moonrise" grow leaves with 9 sections just like on your plate !

Funny, I looked at this not long ago. Whilst watching Veronica on Netflix l, I noticed a blanket that had the same kinda cannabis looking leaf. Maybe search for Spanish flowery?

Fatsia japonica for the pot like leaves

Can I buy that off you??

The design may not have been meant to display any particular plant/flowers. It seems the designer may have decided that flowers that "looked like that" between leaves that "looked like that" would look good together growing on a patch of grass. And there you have it! If you look closely, the flower stems don't have any leaves growing on them; the leaves are growing from the grass/dirt.

It could be Cleome. The leaves look like marijuana and the blooms of some varieties look like the example. Haven't seen anyone suggest this yet but it was my first thought.

kinda makes me think of hellebores

Lupine?

Depends on how old the piece is. The drug war in the US is only around 100 years old, and before that Hemp was a major cash crop in the states. Other places have longer histories with the plant. Cannabis is also a flowering plant. Those nugs people smoke, flowers. My votes cannabis.

Lupin maybe?

Looks like a plant that grows at my house in the summer we call it ragweed but pretty sure that's not the real name lol grows yellow flowers and the leaves look exactly the same. So not helpful at all lol

Cleome

OP is pretty ignorant to mock the use of cannabis. Lol. Before people used cannabis as medicine and medical lobby couldn’t wrangle in its use, it was widely used for many purposes.

Cleome

My vote is Japanese maple.

Acer Atropurpureum maybe? Leaf is very similar looking to cannabis leaf

It also may be a Japanese maple leaf.

It could also be a Japanese maple leaf (they grow in the US too). I wouldn't assume the flowers are necessarily related to the leaves.

In the 1920's the Japonica flower 🌸 was all the rage in tableware. There seems to have been, as others suggested, artistic license here with Japonica flowers and Japanese maple leaves combined in the design.

In the 1920's the Japonica flower was all the rage in tableware. There seems to have been, as others suggested, artistic license here with Japonica flowers and Japanese maple leaves combined in the design.

I'd guess that's a type of maple leaf if it's not cannabis. I hope that this is the answer that changes things although I am really late to the post. 😂 Edit: here's a 🔗 to get you started..

Ohio buckeye?

Passion flower 🌸🌸🌸🌸

I always thought the leaves of the Japanese Maple tree looked similar to marijuana- maybe that’s it…?

Japanese Maple?

The leaves look similar to lupins however the flower looks nothing like that..

Really

Abutilon

Japanese maple 🍁

It’s hemp bro

Japanese Maple.

Could be the Japanese maple tree leaves

They look like Japanese oak leaves:)

Not sure if anyone told you but cannabis has been a known medicine for thousands of years. Millions have embraced this plant so yes, most likely it’s an homage to this amazing plant.

Could be Potentilla (Fingerkraut in German)

Hemp. It's hemp.

100% cannabis leaf.

Looks like a bit maple leaf and like the flowers of a maple tree. Some trees produce flowers kinda like these but like the historian said artist used to take liberties with their art

There is a plant that has those exact leaves and it’s a weed/wild flower and how do I know this because I ended up growing one of them last year but it didn’t have the odour of a marijuana plant and so when I didn’t start producing anything and it was growing outside I decided to use one of those Apps where you can just take the picture and then they will tell you what it is… they can get really big!

Could be cassava leaves

Reminder that hemp is used for much more than just getting high!

Definitely looks like hemp to me. Note the thin leaves with jagged edges. Could just be something nonspecific though since people didn’t always have great references back then

I'm guessing the app

Better than any wedding gift I got.

Japanese maple perhaps

Kenaf - Hibiscus cannabinus

Bamboo?

That is Cannabis Sativa or Cannabis Indica

Omg , 😲 its weed , known as Marijuana, a drug, smoke it ,, you get high

I grow cannabis in a wearhouse legally I kinda know alot about the subject and I can definitely tell you 100%thats cannabis

First thought (after the first thought) they look like a species of Potentilla to me.

Hibiscus coccineus!!!

Japanese Maple leaf

Hemp leaves and Biden pilosa