The way the ginger root is executed is not at all like the very deliberate stylization of the VMS root in terms of the round-reaching symmetrical non-natural posture.
Plus, I've been trying to compare the VMS hard-to-identify plants to the VMS plants that are very natural looking and quite accurate and there's a significant difference in the way they appear to be approached.
When an illustrator in another manuscript draws a fish for a root (mnemonic for an aquatic plant) they are doing a different kind of drawing than when they do a natural root. Some roots, like the root of Solomon's Seal, are extremely distinctive and recognizable. They don't need mnemonics and don't usually have them unless the illustrator was creating an excess of mnemonics (like illustrators who put a dragon beside every plant because they like drawing dragons). An aquatic plant might have a very ordinary root that looks like any other root, so then the mnemonic helps in identification.
Plus, I've been trying to compare the VMS hard-to-identify plants to the VMS plants that are very natural looking and quite accurate and there's a significant difference in the way they appear to be approached.
When an illustrator in another manuscript draws a fish for a root (mnemonic for an aquatic plant) they are doing a different kind of drawing than when they do a natural root. Some roots, like the root of Solomon's Seal, are extremely distinctive and recognizable. They don't need mnemonics and don't usually have them unless the illustrator was creating an excess of mnemonics (like illustrators who put a dragon beside every plant because they like drawing dragons). An aquatic plant might have a very ordinary root that looks like any other root, so then the mnemonic helps in identification.