Notice how the VMS drawing not only includes the leaf scars (left) and new-growth scales (right), but also the ragged pattern along the edge of the rhizome:
![[Image: VMS2vRhizome.png]](https://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/VMS2vRhizome.png)
I'm pretty sure I've posted the following picture in another thread, but here is a closeup of the Nymphoides rhizome.
You can see the old growth... the leaf scars from where each old leaf dropped off. If you look closely, you can see the pores in each scar (little dots on the VMS drawing on the old growth on the left side of the rhizome):
Source: Richards, Dow, and Troxler, American Journal of Botany
Here is a map that shows the native range of Nymphoides (scroll down). It grows in many different climates all over the world (the green color is the native range):
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Dried specimens look like this:
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The bogbean is a cousin to Nymphoides that is also found in medieval manuscripts. The flower is quite similar to Nymphoides (in both real life and in the drawings), but the leaves of the bogbean are thinner and more elliptical. The fish-root in the drawings usually indicates an aquatic plant (bogbean is a marsh plant):
I'm pretty sure I've posted the following picture in another thread, but here is a closeup of the Nymphoides rhizome.
You can see the old growth... the leaf scars from where each old leaf dropped off. If you look closely, you can see the pores in each scar (little dots on the VMS drawing on the old growth on the left side of the rhizome):
Source: Richards, Dow, and Troxler, American Journal of Botany
Here is a map that shows the native range of Nymphoides (scroll down). It grows in many different climates all over the world (the green color is the native range):
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Dried specimens look like this:
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The bogbean is a cousin to Nymphoides that is also found in medieval manuscripts. The flower is quite similar to Nymphoides (in both real life and in the drawings), but the leaves of the bogbean are thinner and more elliptical. The fish-root in the drawings usually indicates an aquatic plant (bogbean is a marsh plant):