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But it seems you guys are unable to explain how experts have been able to associate Voynich plant drawings with 59 species of plants found in the New World, whereas, as far as I know, you cannot unambiguously associate anything with European plants, forcing you declare that the plants are imaginary...

Every New World plant has a plant in the Old World that looks similar, at least in terms of plants that look like those in the VMS.

Many New World plants are circumpolar (especially those that are northern or tropical) which means they are indigenous to both New and Old Worlds.

Even those that are not indigenous to both continents were naturalized in both places by humans when they crossed to the New World in boats and by the ice bridges. They brought plants with them from Polynesia and northeast Asia thousands of years ago, which were well established in the New World by the 15th century. The Vikings probably even brought some when they settled briefly in Labrador.

Many of those "59 species of plants found in the New World" are controversial plant IDs, ESPECIALLY considering there are plants that are morphologically similar in the Old World. The Talbert and Tucker IDs are based on an unproven THEORY that the VMS was created in the Old World.

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Moreover, didn't you guys just verify in another thread that a Voynich plant depiction is actually a depiction of a real animal? Why is the animal real and all the plants fake?

No one has said all the VMS animals are real or that all the VMS animals are fake. And no reputable researcher has said that all the plants are fake or all the plants are real either. Most researchers appear to agree that a number of plants may be real and some may not be, and a number of animals are real and some may not be. Even if we think an animal or plant is real or not, most of us remain open to other ideas.


I hope you aren't getting your ideas about what researchers think about the VMS from the press because they do a pretty bad job of summarizing people's ideas and sometimes they outright misrepresent it.