22-03-2016, 11:07 AM
(22-03-2016, 10:43 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(22-03-2016, 10:38 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view."8 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (hieracium pilosella) red berries, large rhizome "
The various mouse-ears and hawkweeds don't have berres. They are similar to dandelions in that they have delicate puffy wind-dispersed seedheads. Some of them are a bright orange so I'm guessing the illustration is showing the petals just before they open (and some of them don't open very wide).
Thank you JKP, I should have made clear that my brief descriptions are about the illustrations, with no attempt to match them with the identifications proposed by Segre.
If a botanist ever saw my database of plants, he or she would probably be utterly nonplussed. It's completely Voynich-centric, with plants described in a way that helps match them up with old herbals, terms that are not even vaguely botanical but reflect the peculiarities of the time so I actually have a lot of plants parts described as "berries" that aren't berries at all but medieval illustrators tended to draw them that way.
