I'm a total ignoramus when it comes to plants, but I've seen quite a few medieval herbal images thanks to this forum. My opinion (not original, this line of thought is certainly very old) is that all plants in the Voynich Manuscript are intentionally chimeric or fantastic and there is no practical way of making a certain identification of any of them. They may resemble this or that, but the resemblance is never perfect and never good enough to make any conclusions.
I think maybe it might be possible to figure out which plants in general the artist was familiar with (or which are conspicuously absent from the manuscript) and what were the inspirations for a particular plant image, this could yield some useful data.
I think maybe it might be possible to figure out which plants in general the artist was familiar with (or which are conspicuously absent from the manuscript) and what were the inspirations for a particular plant image, this could yield some useful data.


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