Flora of the Voynich Code

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OMG. I can't believe this. Are these guys really botanists?

They have identified You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(Beinecke, or f90v2 on Voyager) as Osmundus regalis [sic] saying it's a fern with grafted-on flowers! (and they spelled the Linnaean name wrong, it's Osmunda regalis, not Osmundus).

Mistake after mistake after mistake.


Plant You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view./f90v2 does not have fern leaves!!! They are odd-pinnate leaves growing up along the stem. Fern leaves grow from the base except for a few like the bracken ferns and they don't look like this and of course they don't have flowers.

It's a seriously wrong assessment.

I think it's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (also called Phu) and it's a pretty good drawing. AND it is consistent with other medieval drawings of Phu, as you can see by the following examples (note that all of these drawings of Valerian have odd-pinnate leaves growing up the stem and most of them have flowers that split into multiple heads, plus there are more drawings with the same characteristics that I didn't even include):




I am, quite frankly, shocked. This is not a hybrid plant with a flower grafted onto Osmunda.

I don't care what the authors' credentials are. It's obvious these guys don't know plants. No competent botanist would identify this drawing as a fern (and they keep misspelling the Linnaean names). Even a casual gardener can see this is not a drawing of a fern.