Every plant we see is an expression of the underlying archetype whose present form has been altered by the part of the scenario into which it has emerged. The form a plant takes comes from the demands that environment has made on it and those demands are, that shape is, encoded within its seed as heredity. There is only one plant form, Goethe said, and it’s the archetype, or as he called it, the Urpflanze, which resides in the imaginal world.
