Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Many of the plants used by native Americans are the same plants used in Europe. They grow worldwide.

Even those that are different are often simply a different species in the same plant family (in drawings, they look the same).

Today that would be true as plants have been widely transported around the globe by humans during the past 500 years. But six or seven hundred years ago I'm sure there were many plants, e.g., corn, tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, and diverse herbs, that could be found only the Americas and if depicted anywhere, were depicted only in the VMS.

I'm confident it's possible to find a match: surely they would have tossed in at least one or two real plants as a teaser, to con the Inquisition into thinking all of them were real plants and thereby send them off on a wild goose chase to find the others. I've decided to opt out.