A conceptual internal plant match?

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About the elephant-like root symbol, people have probably seen this comparison already.
Here, they don't look like elephant heads, but they still look like the Voynich MS thing.

It would be very helpful to know which manuscript the picture Alch. herb #74 comes from, so that I can examine the complete image and study the drawing style. It is hard to make an analysis based on this fragment. There are still some things the strike me.

The following analysis is based on the assessment that the Voynich illustrations contains intentional visual information. In other words, the shapes are taken seriously, even though the drawing style appears rough. 

Voynich f55v: 
The root can be read as a combination of several distinct shapes: four similarly long vertical forms (legs), one long diagonal form (trunk), one short form in-between (a tooth), and one spherical form with a small circle and a brow (head). Under this interpretatio, all the shapes of the root cover meaningfully.

The Alch. herb #74 (one of the five repeated rootlets) : 
This figure consists of one long thin form leading out to a spherical form with eyes (body or neck and a head), two short forms forming a v-shape (open mouth/lips/beak), a long and thin form extending from the v-shape (tongue). 

Among these two illustrations Alch. herb #74 is the clearest, since the same sets of forms appears repeatedly in five versions. The most striking feature is the long tongue. My first impression is that the creature resembles a snake or a dragon. Comparing this with the root in Voynich f55v:  If the Voynich figure represents a snake or dragon, the tongue is extremely short and understated, while the lips are extremely exaggerated. A long tongue is one of the most important features when drawing a snake head. Moreover, it is difficult to imagine the artist giving a snake leg-like appendages, though a dragon could plausibly have leggs.