The Voynich elephant

[EllieV]

One plant I find particularly fascinating is the one I aptly name the elephant plant. It strikes me as interesting because the elephant drawn here, blended to be hidden in a plant leaf, appears much more biologically accurate than elephants in comparable European manuscripts.

I agree. The Harley 1585 example is interesting in relation to this image, because it contains suggestion for using elephant blood for medicine. I think the root may represent elephant blood, which the artist may have imagined as gray.