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(13-10-2016, 11:34 PM)sidanno Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.At page 25 V from manuscript is draw this plant, because in text is specify his name in a vulgar latin language :
alum n ‎(genitive alī); second declension
translate : A plant, the comfrey
Comfrey (also comphrey) is a common name for plants in the genus Symphytum. Comfrey species are important herbs in organic gardening. It is used as a fertilizer and as an herbal medicine. The most commonly used species is Russian comfrey Symphytum × uplandicum,[1] which is a cross or hybrid of Symphytum officinale (common comfrey) and Symphytum asperum (rough comfrey).
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There are many many plants that have elliptical leaves and a basal whorl, tens of thousands of species that look like this.

If you look at the leaves of the VMS plant, you will notice they are parallel (plants like Plantago have parallel veins) and that the veins of comfrey are not.

Hi sidanno,

To keep the forum messages organized, please do the following:

1) name your threads in a descriptive manner


"alum in latin mean plant comfrey" really does not tell us anything about what is the thread subject and why the fact that "alum" in Latin means "comfrey" is relevant to the Voynich text analysis

2) place your threads in appropriate subforums

For example, I cannot find any text analysis in this thread. If you want to suggest identification of the plant as comfrey, you should use the "Imagery" subforum.

Thread moved to Imagery.

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