A lot of things are naturally phallus-shaped, so it's really hard to tell. The plant root of that particular plant is somewhat manlike, so perhaps there's the suggestion of a phallus in the "leaf" (or grain head), or maybe it's a coincidence.
Often in medieval art, shapes are added to suggest which part of the body the plant helps. If someone were drawing Avena sativa, for example (wild oats), which for centuries has been reputed to have hormonal properties/effects, it would not be unusual for them to render the suggestion of a phallus within the drawing. In Pagan times they wouldn't have been shy about adding it. Once Christian prohibitions about nudity became widespread, fig leaves were added, phalluses were knocked off statues, phalluses and breasts were wiped out of manuscripts, and parts went "private" (were suggested rather than rendered more obviously).
There's a pretty unambiguous phallus in the biological section, and a lot of nudity in the VMS, so I don't know if the illustrator would have been shy about suggesting a phallus in one of the plants.
Dunno.
Often in medieval art, shapes are added to suggest which part of the body the plant helps. If someone were drawing Avena sativa, for example (wild oats), which for centuries has been reputed to have hormonal properties/effects, it would not be unusual for them to render the suggestion of a phallus within the drawing. In Pagan times they wouldn't have been shy about adding it. Once Christian prohibitions about nudity became widespread, fig leaves were added, phalluses were knocked off statues, phalluses and breasts were wiped out of manuscripts, and parts went "private" (were suggested rather than rendered more obviously).
There's a pretty unambiguous phallus in the biological section, and a lot of nudity in the VMS, so I don't know if the illustrator would have been shy about suggesting a phallus in one of the plants.
Dunno.