(07-08-2019, 01:55 AM)Gavin Güldenpfennig wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[quote="Linda" pid='29471' dateline='1565122968']
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My current fave for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which seems to combine both of your suggestions in that it is both aquatic like Nymphaea and resembles the flowers and leaves of Menyanthaceae.
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Linda, I can go along with your idea of Nymphoides indica. It would fulfill my transcription and the possible translation as Nymphaea alba would do and the picture shows us a white flower with five petals like it is the case with Nymphoides indica.
It doesn't have to be N. indica. There are several other species of Nymphoides that look the same. One in particular grows all over Europe. That's why I said Menyanthese/Villarsia rather than specifically saying N. indica. Even the yellow ones sometimes have fringes (almost any of them will sometimes have fringes).
I've been saying Nymphoides for years (it's quite a good drawing of Nymphoides) but they are all VERY similar, so you can not identify it down to the particular species. Even the North American version looks exactly like Nymphoides indica. There's very little variation in them compared to many other families of plants. So, I say Menyanthese/Villarsia because botanists used to think many of the Menyanthese and Villarsia were the same and because they grow all over the planet. WHICH Nymphoides it is cannot be determined from a drawing. Even a good photo is often not enough. You have to look at this plant through a microscope to distinguish between the American Gulf version and the East Indian version. They are so similar they used to think it was the same plant (both of which look very much like the VMS drawing).
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The idea, that it takes out the burn of insect bites, and the dragon stands for this, I find really nice. I could imagine this very well. @JKP So we also agree on "plantain"?
No. There is not enough information to say for sure it is plantain. That's why I have a list. There are several other plants that have parallel veins, the have a basal rosette, and that were common in medieval herbals.
Why choose one plant when there are several that match? I don't understand why people do this (and it happens ALL THE TIME). Plantain is PERHAPS the most likely one but it's not the only one, so a list of likely candidates is more appropriate. It might be Hellebore or Dracaena or three other common plants with parallel veins.