22-11-2023, 07:52 PM
(22-11-2023, 05:42 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@pedrestian
Did you see that you have a 4 and a 5 sheet example?
4, 5 and 6 leaves are not uncommon.
Sorry, this is pretty much getting off the topic of comparing structure of plants in the VMS to those in other medieval manuscripts, but to answer your question and say something of really not very much importance about structure as well:
Yes, I'm sure I often see Paris quadrifolia with 5+ leaves in central Switzerland, I don't remember how many leaves on the ones in Great Britain. The plant is pretty distinctive and I'm a careless biologist so I don't think I've ever paid much attention to counting the leaves.
The structure of its flower is more interesting. One might mistake the sepals (which are like small versions of the leaves themselves) and petals (which are much thinner), for each other and thus wrongly count them as eight more 'leaves' just under the berry. If You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is indeed depicting P quadrifolia, it appears to be showing something like this - there are four sepals/petals sticking out sideways, and what might be two more of roughly the same thickness 'coming towards' the viewer. Does one infer there is another pair around the back side? There are no yellow stamens as far as I can see in f5r, but then again the stamens aren't visible on the actual plants most of the time either.