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(26-02-2016, 09:34 PM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hello all,
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No water-lily looks like that.
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and here's the Indian water-lily nelumbo.
Once again, nothing remotely like the sort of cup, or style that you see in f.2v.
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There's no 'male' style at all.
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Now contrast with the hibiscus - as example; I don't think it's an hibiscus, either, but this is closer. It does have a small, cup-shaped calyx is smaller and a single, feathery-looking style.
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The plant(s) on 2v remain unidentified.
- surely, I'm not the first person to have noticed.
You're right, it doesn't look like any water lily I've ever seen or researched either and René mentioned that he'd noticed that as well.
The protruding part of the flower does resemble a hibiscus more than anything, but the rest of it, including the "v" shape in the flower petals resembles the Indian Nymphaea except that the style doesn't match (it's not hirsute and rarely protrudes that much) and N. indica is more frilly than the VMS plant. There is a plant in the Gulf Coast, in a very limited range (and not near the Mayan section), that probably wasn't discovered by the early colonists that does match this plant quite well.
I often wonder if it's a variety of Nymphaea that's become extinct or if it's from a dried specimen and the illustrator made some guesses about the flower (or didn't have one and pasted on a generic flower). I hate to think the flower is wrong when the rest of it is drawn so accurately and in such detail.
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