02-01-2026, 11:51 PM
To put it very clearly: why shouldn't these images be depict parts of plants, when the vast majority of pages in the VMS are about plants?
I couldn't find a really good flower comparison for the last of the three drawings. The two pictures above are gentian. But perhaps this makes it easier to imagine how the drawing might be intended. The many small dots can be seen in the calyx of the gentian; there are variants where the dots are smaller and more widely distributed. From above, these strange curves around these structures in the VMS could be these slightly yellowish ends. But of course, the pistil does not match, so I admit that this is not a really good match.
The blue dots could also be many small flower stems, as seen in the third picture. I have a picture of a plant called ‘Purple Poppy’ – although this is obviously not the flower in question, it shows how it could be interpreted.
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I couldn't find a really good flower comparison for the last of the three drawings. The two pictures above are gentian. But perhaps this makes it easier to imagine how the drawing might be intended. The many small dots can be seen in the calyx of the gentian; there are variants where the dots are smaller and more widely distributed. From above, these strange curves around these structures in the VMS could be these slightly yellowish ends. But of course, the pistil does not match, so I admit that this is not a really good match.
The blue dots could also be many small flower stems, as seen in the third picture. I have a picture of a plant called ‘Purple Poppy’ – although this is obviously not the flower in question, it shows how it could be interpreted.
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