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Not bad. I'm not sure of the exact notion. The most general would be "family", but it's difficult to google out something on this account, because "family" is a biological term in itself, - thus plenty of clutter yields.

I agree that this could represent birth, but family, or something like that, is more "manifesting" here, I think.

Haha, it's funny, one of the uses for the plant I mentioned, V. anthelmintica, is birth control, but I didn't mention it because it's fairly far down on the list of uses (it's primarily a vermifuge) plus there are tons of plants that were used for birth control (it's not specific to this plant), but this particular use might not be a good fit anyway, because the idea of "family" (at least in the middle ages) is the opposite of birth control UNLESS an image like this is about limiting one's family (one kid) in which case there are quite a number of plants that would qualify in terms of use (but unfortunately not in terms of morphology).


I have to admit the flower rays do look rather halo-like, but it would be challenge to draw flowers that looked like heads and still make them look like flowers (especially if it is an aster, which has flowers like this) so I guess we can't entirely discount a Christian reference, even though there is a relative lack of Christian references overall.