(13-05-2025, 12:19 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The plant on the right could be a decent illustration of Teasel (Dipsacus).
Ah I cannot avoid playing the devil's advocate when talking about plants, sorry
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a big herb, a couple meters tall. It's easy to recognize in the Aussler's herbal, which depicts rather accurately the topmost ~40cm of the plant (a single branch), but the Voynich drawing does not look like a real Dipsacus at all (imho). If it's a Dipsacus, it's as the top part of the plant has been directly connected to the roots, getting rid of about 1.5m of leaves, stems and flowers in between. It also should have thorns, which are the first thing one notices looking at a Dipsacus. The 'flowers' do not look like Dipsacus flowers at all (compare with the Aussler's herbal) and they could be flowers or infructescences of many different plants. The way the three 'flowers' are connected together does not look like Dipsacus, too (compare with the herbal).