28-12-2025, 09:34 PM
(28-12-2025, 08:09 PM)pangiotis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. looks to me like a brussels sprouts plant with the leaf buds twisting around the stalk like a vines, and the foliage on top as well, the leaves on the side are also
Well, at least the brussels sprouts are known since the 5tc century, according to Wikipedia.
But I am not convinced about the resemblance. The part that matches is the thick bare stem with a bunch of large leaves at the top and scattered leaves here and there. But the shape of the leaves does not match, nor how they spread out. And there is no sign of the sprouts themselves. Instead the picture has those separate twisting branches with flowers.
On the other hand, I believe that the Herbal plant drawings are Frankenstein monsters. Maybe one or two parts (such as the root, maybe the leaves) are indeed from the plant being discussed in the page, but the rest is a mix of spurious parts -- some drawn from nature, some copied from other herbals ("alchemical", probably) at random, and some just made up.
So maybe indeed the stalk and leaf arrangement of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are copied from a brussels sprouts plant that happened to be growing on the Scribe's garden. But the flowers definitely are not...
All the best, --stolfi