Morten St George Theory

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I have a question: Do the herbals of medieval Europe include fantasy plants like the VMS or do they primarily display plants that can be identified as real plants? This should help us to determine whether or not the VMS follows the western tradition in the field of herbals.

Currently, I view the herbal pages of the VMS only as a misdirection, to distract unwanted readers and steer them away from the sacred text that they wanted to protect.

Medieval herbals include many plants that might be perceived as "fantasy" plants by those who are unfamiliar with medieval mnemonics and herbal traditions.

Many of those in "alchemical herbals" seem that way, but the more I study them, the more I find the strange fish roots and eyeballs in leaves are meaningful. For example, the fish roots generally turn out to be aquatic plants.

The only one that seems like it might be completely mythical is a specific version of lunaria (there are several lunarias, all of them real plants). The mythical lunaria is said to glow in the dark BUT even this MIGHT have been a real plant, perhaps one that is extinct. There is the possibility that there was a plant that had this capacity. There are aquatic plants and animals that have the capability to fluoresce. But, perhaps it was myth and it never existed.