(20-05-2024, 09:03 PM)Pardis Motiee Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I asked the question at whatisthisplant subreddit. Unexpectedly, there was a great identification, cassava plant was suggested by u/sadrice, mentioning the flowers, growth form, and root similarity.[You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.] I think it is a considerable possibility.
You may be right, though cassava isn't the only possibility.
Not long ago, another member was asking about an identification of another VM plant in the small plants section. Some of the comments in You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. displays cassava instead; note: cassava is in the same genus), and bryonia dioica by an anonymous Finnish source taken from Stephen Bax's site (You are not allowed to view links.
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Cassava (manihot esculenta) does seem a good match though (You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view.), a better match than the above ones, I think. But consider first that this is a tropical/subtropical plant originating in the Americas and many believe the VM was created in Europe, in which case the VM's creators wouldn't have seen it growing locally. Spanish and Portugese explorers discovered it in the Americas but not likely until after the VM's creation. More research is needed to make a better determination. I hope you dig into it further (pardon the unintended pun, please) and find proof or at least more evidence to support the identification.