Compound plants in the VMS ?

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Here is an interesting text passage on the subject of "naturalistic representation of plants in the Middle Ages":

Scientific interest was primarily focused on the question of the benefits of plants, their effectiveness against diseases and ailments. Botany in today's sense, systematic interest in plants, their structure, did not exist. It was not even known that insects played the decisive role in fertilization. Instead, people believed that plant species could merge into others, that male and female forces were at work. People believed in plant marriages.
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The hyper-realistic, detailed and therefore reliable drawings appear only towards the end of the 15th century.

Helmut Birkhan: Pflanzen im Mittelalter. Eine Kulturgeschichte
Böhlau Verlag, Wien, Köln und Weimar 2012

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