27-03-2024, 12:31 PM
"Resembles" is not "is". It is not an identification. "Resembles" is a reasoning, not a fact nor a truth.
It is quite clear that if VM authors ever wanted their plants and roots to be generally identified and recognized, they would have painted them so. They had the skills and means to do it, but they chose not for some reason, maybe because the VM authors used the plants and roots as way to conceal information to the intended audience, mixing up different plant and root traits and parts, or even invented new ones. e.g. "a root with this and plant leaves like that means that".. or so.
For this, as VM plants are not botany, no botanist can be treated as expert or fact providing person in the matter. But they can provide a great fun for a blog.
It is quite clear that if VM authors ever wanted their plants and roots to be generally identified and recognized, they would have painted them so. They had the skills and means to do it, but they chose not for some reason, maybe because the VM authors used the plants and roots as way to conceal information to the intended audience, mixing up different plant and root traits and parts, or even invented new ones. e.g. "a root with this and plant leaves like that means that".. or so.
For this, as VM plants are not botany, no botanist can be treated as expert or fact providing person in the matter. But they can provide a great fun for a blog.


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