21-09-2016, 07:29 PM
What I like about this plant is that there are enough clues in the image to tell us rather clearly which type of plant it is - a vine. That's a rare luxury in Voynich studies.
Marco - Tamo does have the berries and approximately the leaf shape, but as far as I can see it doesn't have tendrils? Now, it is also called black bindweed, and bindweeds are explicitly associated with Dionysos.
JKP -
If we take the tendril to be a purely mnemonical lengthening of the stalk, that would open up a number of additional possibilities, like Marco's ID as well. To be honest I have no clue about what the root is supposed to represent. I've seen Velinska suggest it's a camel, though in that case I'd expect two humps instead of three. Unless it's three dromedaries
I agree about Smilax - it would be a near perfect match if the leaves looked a bit differently.
Muehlenbeckia sagittifolia seems to have a problem I've encountered in a number of possible ID's as well: the leaves are very long and narrow, making even the broader examples look narrower than the VM plant.
It would be good to have an idea what the significance of the roots could be. There's also the part where two stalks come from the roots and fuse immediately, looking like some kind of needle.
Marco - Tamo does have the berries and approximately the leaf shape, but as far as I can see it doesn't have tendrils? Now, it is also called black bindweed, and bindweeds are explicitly associated with Dionysos.
JKP -
If we take the tendril to be a purely mnemonical lengthening of the stalk, that would open up a number of additional possibilities, like Marco's ID as well. To be honest I have no clue about what the root is supposed to represent. I've seen Velinska suggest it's a camel, though in that case I'd expect two humps instead of three. Unless it's three dromedaries
I agree about Smilax - it would be a near perfect match if the leaves looked a bit differently.
Muehlenbeckia sagittifolia seems to have a problem I've encountered in a number of possible ID's as well: the leaves are very long and narrow, making even the broader examples look narrower than the VM plant.
It would be good to have an idea what the significance of the roots could be. There's also the part where two stalks come from the roots and fuse immediately, looking like some kind of needle.