Whoever drew this may not have been a great artist, but cared about details:
![[Image: Plant2vRhizome.png]](http://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Plant2vRhizome.png)
In fact, plants with this kind of rhizome can sometimes be identified as to the specific plant by how much the leaf scar protrudes, how porous it is (note the dots in the VMS plant) and the pattern by which it "spins" around rhizome's stalk (some are in bands, some in horizontal lines, some create a gradual spiral).
There was a software developer who was working with plant rhizomes to try to develop algorithms to mimic each individual pattern of growth who had some excellent close-ups of the rhizome structure of a few aquatic plants. Unfortunately, it was only a limited sample (a couple of species) and I don't know if the pictures are still online.
In fact, plants with this kind of rhizome can sometimes be identified as to the specific plant by how much the leaf scar protrudes, how porous it is (note the dots in the VMS plant) and the pattern by which it "spins" around rhizome's stalk (some are in bands, some in horizontal lines, some create a gradual spiral).
There was a software developer who was working with plant rhizomes to try to develop algorithms to mimic each individual pattern of growth who had some excellent close-ups of the rhizome structure of a few aquatic plants. Unfortunately, it was only a limited sample (a couple of species) and I don't know if the pictures are still online.