Hello all,
I know that people have been calling the plant on f.2v a water-lily for a very long time, and that almost everyone feels that it's "something sure".
It can't possibly be a water-lily.
The plant on f.2v it has a single protruding feathery style. At the base it has a small cap-like calyx, very carefully drawn, and which looks as if it could easily be pulled away.
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No water-lily looks like that.
Here's a cross-section diagram of the water-lily nymphaea. Notice how all the outer petals are are the same length as the inner ones: there's never a small 'cup' at the bottom. That's because all waterlilies open during the day and close up within their outer leaf/petals at night. This could never happen with the plant on f.2v.
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and here's the Indian water-lily nelumbo.
Once again, nothing remotely like the sort of cup, or style that you see in f.2v.
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There's no 'male' style at all.
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Now contrast with the hibiscus - as example; I don't think it's an hibiscus, either, but this is closer. It does have a small, cup-shaped calyx is smaller and a single, feathery-looking style.
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The plant(s) on 2v remain unidentified.
- surely, I'm not the first person to have noticed.