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A note about plant identifications. These pictures were taken in my backyard, the day before we left Jordan for Canada. I had only just discovered the Voynich Manuscript, and hadn't yet downloaded all of the pages. However, I immediately identified several of the plants as those that grew wild in the desert hills of Nabataea, and which were also prized by the desert dwelling Bedouin. Most of the people in my village (Abu Lissan) could not identify all of the plants. Those, however, who had strong Bedouin heritage (ie: grew up in the desert), knew the plants and their uses. In looking through the plant illustrations in the pages that I had downloaded of the Voynich Manuscript I found myself imagining that the artist drew the illustrations from dried, pressed plants. I immediately decided to dry and press my own specimens, and will later compare them with the illustrations in the VMS. (More coming later).
