09-02-2025, 09:45 PM
As always with VM plant identifications, there are some tantalizing similarities as well as some major differences.
The arrangement of the leaves is slightly different, but I'd say certainly close enough.
The flowers though... Flowers with 5 petals are a common, distinct type, which the VM artists knew. They clearly drew a different type of flower here.
In this post, Marco links to a Buglossa in Auslasser. You can see that this drawing does get these aspects right:
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The arrangement of the leaves is slightly different, but I'd say certainly close enough.
The flowers though... Flowers with 5 petals are a common, distinct type, which the VM artists knew. They clearly drew a different type of flower here.
In this post, Marco links to a Buglossa in Auslasser. You can see that this drawing does get these aspects right:
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