Conclusing:
Strictly speaking, the question ‘gentian, poppy or tulip?’ is not really relevant. These comparisons are actually only intended to describe individual components – star, wreath, tube.
However, when an author depicts this on a fold-out page, it is more about a kind of seriality. Three such flower centres on consecutive pages are probably intended to describe the basic structures rather than a specific type of flower.
It is about the power/(healing) energy of the generative centre of this plant, i.e. something that can be explained schematically but not perfectly depicted. And so the text around it also makes sense.
It is maybe nothing more than a schematic textbook representation and interpretation.
Strictly speaking, the question ‘gentian, poppy or tulip?’ is not really relevant. These comparisons are actually only intended to describe individual components – star, wreath, tube.
However, when an author depicts this on a fold-out page, it is more about a kind of seriality. Three such flower centres on consecutive pages are probably intended to describe the basic structures rather than a specific type of flower.
It is about the power/(healing) energy of the generative centre of this plant, i.e. something that can be explained schematically but not perfectly depicted. And so the text around it also makes sense.
It is maybe nothing more than a schematic textbook representation and interpretation.