Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Water lily lends support to nothing. In fact, it's one of the few places where the VM does touch known herbal traditions. 

The supposed sunflower is most likely a cereal crop like millet. It's beyond me that actual botanists think it can be a sunflower with leaves like those.

I agree with you on the leaves but it wasn't my idea. As far as I know, botanists remain unable to identify most the VMS plants, so I consider it a mistake to attribute those plants to Europe or any other geographic location. On botany, the VMS is a maze of contradictions and uncertainties. Best to leave it at that for the time being.