[split] f2v plant ID

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bi3mw: I heard that such combinations were often drawn. Does anyone know examples ? I do not mean the doctrine of signatures and corresponding representations, but "compound plants".

In herbal manuscripts?

Since 2007, I've intensively studied the drawings in more than 30 herbal manuscripts (a few of them are early printed copies from the 15th century, but most are hand-drawn) and I do not see evidence that combination drawings are common. In fact, off the top of my head, I can't think of any. Combination drawings might exist, but they are definitely not the norm. The norm is for a drawing to represent one kind of plant.

It WAS common for them to put plants with related functions, names, or shapes next to each other, but not to combine them into one drawing. Occasionally if the plant comes in two different flower colors, they will sometimes show both colors on one plant, but even this is not very common.