"Half Rose Cross-Section" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

One large rose takes up most of the artwork, and it is drawn two ways at once. The left half is the bloom as you would hold it: broad salmon-pink petals with ruffled edges, outlined in thin dark maroon and marked with hairline veins that follow each curve. Near the middle the petals wind into a small spiral. Then a straight vertical cut runs down the flower, and the right half is opened like a plate from a botany book. Petal layers stack in tight wavy bands of deeper coral and dusty rose, and in the hollow between them a pale cream pistil rises on a slender column with a stippled cap. Around it, small orange-red dots float on fine filaments against a dark maroon cavity.

The shading on this heavyweight unisex crewneck T-shirt is done almost entirely with dots, which gather in the folds and thin out toward the petal edges, so the pink never goes flat. Under the bloom, olive-green sepals with serrated edges fan out to both sides, one of them curling down to a long point. The stem bends toward the lower right and carries three small thorns, each tipped slightly away from the curve. Nothing is written anywhere on it. It suits gardeners, florists, biology students and anyone who likes old botanical illustration, and it makes an easy gift for a person who grows roses.