(25-01-2018, 07:41 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I provide a Voynich depiction of a plant and modern photograph of a rainforest plant. Are they, or are they not, the same plant?
If you go to the blog of Ivan Mikolji (the photographer), he explains that this is not a plant but two individuals from a colony of protozoans, Ophrydium versatile.
It is utterly impossible for protozoans to grow "a little green bud that offers every potential of blossoming into a flower."
Protozoans are single cell organisms.
They have zero potential of blossoming into a flower.
They don't have stems or tendrils or buds.
Here are some more pictures of Ophrydium versatile:
![[Image: 110810-049.jpg]](http://photos.onderwaterwereld.org/110810-049.jpg)
![[Image: original.jpeg?1472420762]](https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/4700094/original.jpeg?1472420762)
What is shown in Ivan Mikolji's photo cannot be described as a "rainforest plant": Ophrydium versatile can be found in freshwaters all over the world, in all climates. Also, just for the sake of accuracy, they are not plants.
So actually, EVEN if we were to consider the possibility that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. shows a protozoan ON an aquatic plant, as in the photograph below, this would not point towards a Venezuelan "rainforest" origin.
![[Image: wwk_20070326_1068_rezwt_mt1332089159_w675_h414.jpg]](http://www.kolvoortonderwaterfoto.nl/media/renders//klokdiertjes/wwk_20070326_1068_rezwt_mt1332089159_w675_h414.jpg)
Ophrydium versatile colony on an aquatic plant in the Netherlands.

