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RE: [Just for fun] Favorite Plant Tournament! - Aga Tentakulus - 19-04-2025

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But all in all, I don't think it's possible to identify any plant (or a part of any plant) with certainty from VMS illustrations (with the possible exception of Viola tricolor which at least looks like the real thing, who knows). The most I can say confidently about You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is that no European plant combines reniform leaves with a such a flower, it comes from imagination and not from nature.
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How accurate do you think a drawing of a plant has to be for it not to be a fantasy?

Example f21r.
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RE: [Just for fun] Favorite Plant Tournament! - ReneZ - 19-04-2025

Possibly, this is getting a bit OT, and there is already at least one thread discussing the possible ID of this illustration.

RE: [Just for fun] Favorite Plant Tournament! - Koen G - 19-04-2025

I don't really mind in this case, Rene. Might as well have a rehash of some plant IDs while we vote for our favorites.

RE: [Just for fun] Favorite Plant Tournament! - Aga Tentakulus - 19-04-2025

For me, it wasn't about the plant ID, but about the fantasy.

RE: [Just for fun] Favorite Plant Tournament! - Linda - 22-04-2025

It's hard for me to vote for a favorite. The one that appeals to me most? The one that is most easily identified? The one that looks least like what I think it is mnemonically trying to identify?

So to me, 

  1. f2v clearly a water lily, but not clear which, what species, or what mnemonic is being employed, if any.
  2.  f3r I am thinking something like Amaranthus tricolor but I don't see an identifying feature to say it's so. 
    [Image: classic-sml-josephs-coat-seed-pack-art-1.jpg]
  3.  f11v I think this is probably my favorite, I think it's something that nowadays you can find at the grocery store, that you could grow from the part that would be sold to you, which is the part that's missing (been cut off), along with the part that you might also use if you grew it, also cut off, only a successful growth to bloom would get you this far to know what it was by sight.
    [Image: turmeric-ukon-curcuma-longa-curcuma-28650011.jpg.webp][Image: il_570xN.1935186094_1212.jpg][Image: images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-oXlcLR6lf5QoR0u6QhK...8&usqp=CAU][Image: 97bb3c0030b19f62e8e6d9dbe99f5ce1.jpg]
  4.  f13v I don't think I have a pet ID for this one
  5.  f19v Same here
  6.  f45r Agastache rugosa, looks like it, with the flowers sticking out,  the leaves shape, and it regenerates from the old roots.
    [Image: 500px-Agastache_rugosa.jpg][Image: images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRchgkHL-7aO6_lAubW7No...777b1LUA&s]
  7.  f46v Phacelia, has blue flowers that form on a curled raceme, the leaves are compound but can be interpreted as large wavy edged leaves if you ignore the compound part. Used as a cover plant to deter erosion, re roots.
    [Image: phacelialacy500x.png?v=1660922901][Image: stock-vector-phacelia-flower-vector-bota...628151.jpg][Image: phacelia.png]
  8.  f52r Larkspur, the way the leaves are drawn are a mnemonic which says groups of average 4 leaflets with average 3 lobes each. Ie it is true but not as drawn. The root is woody. The 4 petals are problematic though, as is only one flower.
    [Image: images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTW-9M1p7_XniOk5rC-THB...E&usqp=CAU][Image: 99e3b51e4d74568da1b4f256dd364e5a.jpg]
  9.  f66v I don't think I have a pet ID for this one.

OK so I will vote for 3. I guess 7 would be my alternate.