29-03-2019, 05:07 PM
(29-03-2019, 04:56 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On the other hand, the VMS also depicts plants for which, as far as I know, no one has been able to find a look-alike anywhere. As all real plants are likely to have a look-alike somewhere, I am forced to conclude that the VMS also depicts fantasy plants.
Plants that are identified by mnemonics don't have to be look-alikes. If someone draws a picture of a devil and emphasizes the claws by drawing the hands really large and the drawing is in between other plants, a plant person would know that it means devil's-claw plant. Mnemonics were moderately common in medieval drawings of plants.