Qasr mosaic leopard and VMS Leo/August image

[Sam G]

I am lost.
Here is a simple YES/NO question. A single word is needed to reply. All replies will be appreciated.

Objectively speaking, is there a tree in the Voynich Leo illustration?

It's difficult to agree on "this is more similar than that", but it seems we cannot agree even on something as basic as the answer to the question above.

If I had to choose, I would say YES, but of course I'm saying that the "entity" in question is sort of a hybrid - a tree from the mosaic that was reinterpreted as the end of the tail when the image was "Europeanized".

To be clear, the tree-tail still resembles the mosaic tree far more than it resembles any Leo tail I've seen.  I said that before, and you posted Cod Sang 402.  I admit that it's similar in its basic outline, but don't see it as possible that the VMS Leo tree-tail was derived from that image.  The similarity could be due to coincidence, or to a later reshaping of the tree-tail under the influence of something similar to that image.

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Also, something I should have mentioned in my original post, is that the analysis by JKP that I linked to also referred to this entity as simply a tree with no qualification:

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None of the tongue-Leos had a tree in the background, either, so it seems the VMS Leo is unique in a number of ways.

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The VMS Leo diverges from tradition and the tree in the background looks like it might be a palm tree rather than a deciduous tree, entirely appropriate if you consider lions are mostly concentrated in hot countries.

So clearly I'm not the first person who has seen a tree here.

And no, JKP's post is not where I got the idea - I had already found the mosaic and noticed the similarity before I consulted his page.