26-11-2025, 02:07 AM
The important question Jorge raises here is if a medieval artist would have used the term Viola for V. tricolor. In German this is a 'Stiefmütterchen' while V. odorata is a Veilchen. A known medieval German term for V. tricolor was freisam in different spelling variants or yacea (?) in latin
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German Wikipedia says that the Fathers of Botany (Otto Brunfels, Hieronymus Bock, Leonhart Fuchs) could not determine which species the viola (Ion) in Dioscorides was supposed to be.
More on the odorata / tricolor distinction which seems quite a mess over the centuries:
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German Wikipedia says that the Fathers of Botany (Otto Brunfels, Hieronymus Bock, Leonhart Fuchs) could not determine which species the viola (Ion) in Dioscorides was supposed to be.
More on the odorata / tricolor distinction which seems quite a mess over the centuries:
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