Diane writes that she was not the first to correlate banana and f13r, and credits Edith Sherwood with coming up with the banana ID. See her explanation about this on the forum You are not allowed to view links.
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Sherwood's page is dated to 2013 but that is the last edit, not the date of the original ID, which is probably quite a bit older.
The nuance is that while Sherwood (and many others) see 13r as a banana, Diane's idea is that this folio depicts the whole Musa "group", however anachronistic that may seem (obviously the notion of a Musaceae family is a Linnean one, so I really don't know what kind of "group" she thinks this depicts).
Banana seems to be a popular ID for 13r, and there are several people making the observation, such as somebody named "AZ Starwatcher" in a 2013 YouTube You are not allowed to view links.
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As you note above, Koen Gh, there are indeed several interesting similarities with banana, so I guess lots of people have reached this conclusion independently.
But other possibilities have been put forward:
Back in 2001, Dana Scott identified 13r as Geranium (see ML archive).
JKP makes a different identification for the plant. See the post here:
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Also worth noting regarding this page is Stolfi's 1998 observation (again, see ML archive), that the first vord on the page is "
torshor" , which just might be the name of the plant.
Stolfi believed this vord was unique to the page, but back then they didn't have the help of voynichese.com.
Otherwise, he would surely have noted that
torshor actually appears in one other place, as line initial in one of the "recipes" on 107r.