Is it worthwhile actually trying to identify the plants in the VM?

[EllieV]

My personal collection of plant ids is here - I made the list not because I think I am right, but because I hope that other researchers may find some useful ideas in it and come up with better ones in the future. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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EllieV, Great list and collection. Is there a reason why you didn't include f25v? Plenty of opinions around, also on your blog, and it is discussed here now too (under 'discussion' is a thread on a suggestion for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as Mandrake). 
I'd value your opinion if You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is too complicated a case for plant ID...

Hi juerenw, I believe the mandrake is one fol. 44r. Few people independently suggested that to me. Edith Sherwood suggested it. Does anybody knows who came up with the mandrake for 44r first? I have prepared images to post about it. It took me some time, but I think I have a story about it. In German the mandrake was called 'little hanged man' - it was believed that the mandrake root-person was formed by the hanged man's blood coming down the gallows - I think fol. 44r represents drops of blood coming down gallows beam (you can see the stem of the plant has edges like beam) - this is why the root-man is missing - it is still forming [url=https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f44r/0.5/0.5/2.50]https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f44r/0.5/0.5/2.50

Hi David, the above mandrake example shows how studying the VMs plants may help with more info about the author and maybe the text. Another example - Traveler's joy points to Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland and the plant with rhombuses in its petals point to German speaking author. The text maybe Latin or other language of course, but I think German was one of the languages spoken by the author.
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