The poppy was recently mentioned in the random plants thread. Water lilies was a suggestion from some time back - pre-ninja. Perhaps these are not the best choices as accepted identifications.
The point is - if discovering a known plant name to be identified in the VMs text is going to be possible, then it makes sense to take the easiest and most obvious examples first. Clearly certain plants have various names in different languages. Apparently I picked some poor examples. However, if we cannot manage to make the text connection in the case of the ones that provide the best opportunity to accomplish the task, (the simplest plant identification - whichever one that might be), then how can we expect any results from more difficult identifications? In which case, we are back to my original statement (in the compound plants discussion) - Even a potentially valid plant identification reveals nothing beyond itself. [Western Hemisphere plants would imply post-Columbian chronology, but that interpretation has not been established.]
From early on, a lot of effort has been spent on VMs plant identification, with very little to show for results. A viola is a viola is a viola, but what is it in the VMs text? It almost seems that the whole plant section merely serves as a distraction. Time spent searching in the closet will not discover what was hidden under the bed - or a nebuly line that was used as a cosmic boundary.
The point is - if discovering a known plant name to be identified in the VMs text is going to be possible, then it makes sense to take the easiest and most obvious examples first. Clearly certain plants have various names in different languages. Apparently I picked some poor examples. However, if we cannot manage to make the text connection in the case of the ones that provide the best opportunity to accomplish the task, (the simplest plant identification - whichever one that might be), then how can we expect any results from more difficult identifications? In which case, we are back to my original statement (in the compound plants discussion) - Even a potentially valid plant identification reveals nothing beyond itself. [Western Hemisphere plants would imply post-Columbian chronology, but that interpretation has not been established.]
From early on, a lot of effort has been spent on VMs plant identification, with very little to show for results. A viola is a viola is a viola, but what is it in the VMs text? It almost seems that the whole plant section merely serves as a distraction. Time spent searching in the closet will not discover what was hidden under the bed - or a nebuly line that was used as a cosmic boundary.