The Voynich Ninja

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I have no idea what the plant is supposed to represent. But it is only supposed to show what I have already seen. Purely optical

Line 2, token 9 and line 7, token last.

As for the drawing, I like Koen's idea that the head of the flower might be a stigmata/mandorla/devotional style image.

The leaves look like kalanchoe: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

This plant differs from botanical reality not as much by its shape (there are no creatures in the roots or anything), but rather by its use of patterns.

In addition to what JKP mentioned, the leaves also use the standard VM cloud band pattern.

The outer pattern on the flower is often used for heavenly apparitions as well. When I google "God manuscript", these are among the first results:

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This is from BnF cod. gr 74,
a byzantine manuscript in greek, produced in Constantinople at ~11th century.
This book was reproduced/copied in Georgia (2x) about 12th ct, and in Bulgaria in 14th century.
This one here appears to be from the bulgarian version:
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It is not about the size of these "flowers" and the fact that they are about to be cultivated somehow --
here are some guys even climbing them:





The whole BnF is filled with paintings of this type of trees; it seems to be standard for the complete manuscript.

This here is from Kiev psalter, made in 1397AD:
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and you will find again this type of trees throughout the whole book.

As both production / copy dates are lying quite next in time to the VMS, these tree drawings appear to be a known standard at least for biblical scripts -- whatever plant is meant by it. I can not imagine or remember any trees that look even similar to this.
It may be scenical for the places where the bible episodes happened, but even palm trees are shown differently here.

Maybe somebody is interested in which scenes are described in the according texts, at least the agricultural painting may mention the trees that are shown there.

I do not follow this trace, as mentioned earlier: "staring at plants" will lead to nothing.

Here, it opens the option that at least some VMS "plant" drawings of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (or even f50v) are not showing cute little garden flowers, but full-grown exotic trees or something -- and we have not the slightest idea yet, why (minimum 3) medieval artists chose this way to paint plants, in a style we are not able to understand at all.