(02-05-2017, 06:30 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You know you've been reading too much Voynich when... you see a fake potted plant and you just have to snap a picture.
So yeah, I know this is a fake plant, but it's a well made one. Is this some kind of ficus with aerial roots?
LOL! There's the helical twining.
The leaves are a bit dark, hard to see, but they do look like Ficus benjamina (the "houseplant" ficus). Ficus benjamina is kind of a delicate plant, finicky, needs just the right amount of sun and water to be happy and they don't like being moved from one environment to another.
They can be turned into bonsai by trimming the roots and branches (very carefully and slowly over many years) but I'm not aware of any of the Ficus species with this kind of leaf that have aerial roots. I'd be more inclined to think this was modeled after one where the branches were trimmed off and it was wound round the post as it grew, but even then, the texture and wiggliness of the stalks isn't quite right.
Here's another thought... okay the leaves are fake, modeled after ficus, but could the "stalks" be taken from an actual vine, like a grape vine (grape vines are wiggly, they grow fast and they are regularly pruned and thus would be available to florists and fake-tree makers for something like this).