Morten St George Theory

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Morten: For my part, I was only relying on the professional opinion of alleged botanists who made an issue out of sunflowers being native to the Americas. Complain to them, not to me.

Regarding your African depictions, can you please tell us precisely where in Africa do we find both sunflowers and European settlers during the 15th century? Thanks.

Morten, I think you missed the point...


1) There's no proof that there are any sunflower drawings in the VMS.

2) Plants that look like sunflowers exist in Europe and the Mediterranean (and other parts of Africa), so even if there are plants that resemble sunflowers in the VMS, they don't necessarily have to be sunflowers.

3) Professional botanists generally do NOT have any background in medieval iconography.