14-11-2025, 02:49 PM
Hi! My name is Jonathan Zhang, and I come from Shanghai, China. I was born on August 13, 2010 (yes, I'm just fifteen years old). I'm very interested in the Voynich Manuscript.
In discussion of the plant that appeared on page f3r, I've got an inference (or theory) of its species. It might have been the Sempervivum.
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Sempervivum is a genus within the family Crassulaceae.
The most typical form of Sempervivum is a ground-hugging, flower-like rosette. Although it is short, when it blooms, the plant sends up a single, upright, unbranched flower stalk from the center of the rosette.
Its leaves are arranged in a tight spiral, layered upon each other, forming a very regular shape that looks like a pagoda or a rose.
Many Sempervivum varieties have leaf tips or margins adorned with white, cobweb-like "threads" or cartilaginous edges. A notable example is Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cobweb Houseleek), whose leaf tips produce white, silk-like hairs that cover the rosette like a spider's web, giving it a white-edged appearance.
The hairs, glandular dots, or color variations on the leaves can, in specific varieties and under certain conditions, create a texture similar to "spots."
Sempervivums' color changes with the seasons, light exposure, and temperature variations. In environments with ample sunlight and significant temperature differences (especially in autumn and winter), the leaves can turn from green to bright red, purple, or reddish-brown.
As alpine succulents, they possess short, dense fibrous root systems, an adaptation to shallow soils like rock crevices.
Sempervivum species are native to mountainous regions of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder recorded its uses in his Natural History. In medieval Europe, the plant was believed to counteract poison and treat earaches, insect bites, and skin problems. Its sap was sometimes used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
And by the way, I also noticed an interesting fact. The word "Sempervivum" can be separated into two Latin words—"Semper" (which means "forever") and "vivum" (which means "life"). connecting together, which means "immortality."
Actually, the Sempervivum does not look like the plant displayed on page f3r…… The leaves of the plant displayed on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are growing opposite or whorled. The leaves of Sempervivum grow rosulate or fascicled.
So there is a closer "guess" concerning the leaf patterns. It might be the Sedum Rupestre.
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In discussion of the plant that appeared on page f3r, I've got an inference (or theory) of its species. It might have been the Sempervivum.
[attachment=12354]
[attachment=12356]
Sempervivum is a genus within the family Crassulaceae.
The most typical form of Sempervivum is a ground-hugging, flower-like rosette. Although it is short, when it blooms, the plant sends up a single, upright, unbranched flower stalk from the center of the rosette.
Its leaves are arranged in a tight spiral, layered upon each other, forming a very regular shape that looks like a pagoda or a rose.
Many Sempervivum varieties have leaf tips or margins adorned with white, cobweb-like "threads" or cartilaginous edges. A notable example is Sempervivum arachnoideum (Cobweb Houseleek), whose leaf tips produce white, silk-like hairs that cover the rosette like a spider's web, giving it a white-edged appearance.
The hairs, glandular dots, or color variations on the leaves can, in specific varieties and under certain conditions, create a texture similar to "spots."
Sempervivums' color changes with the seasons, light exposure, and temperature variations. In environments with ample sunlight and significant temperature differences (especially in autumn and winter), the leaves can turn from green to bright red, purple, or reddish-brown.
As alpine succulents, they possess short, dense fibrous root systems, an adaptation to shallow soils like rock crevices.
Sempervivum species are native to mountainous regions of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder recorded its uses in his Natural History. In medieval Europe, the plant was believed to counteract poison and treat earaches, insect bites, and skin problems. Its sap was sometimes used as an anti-inflammatory agent.
And by the way, I also noticed an interesting fact. The word "Sempervivum" can be separated into two Latin words—"Semper" (which means "forever") and "vivum" (which means "life"). connecting together, which means "immortality."
Actually, the Sempervivum does not look like the plant displayed on page f3r…… The leaves of the plant displayed on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are growing opposite or whorled. The leaves of Sempervivum grow rosulate or fascicled.
So there is a closer "guess" concerning the leaf patterns. It might be the Sedum Rupestre.
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