Aloe vera and the identity of the plant carvings in Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland

IF 1.2 4区生物学 Q3 PLANT SCIENCES

Bradleya Pub Date : 2021-05-12 DOI:10.25223/brad.n39.2021.a29

G. Thomson

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Abstract

Summary: The small early fifteenth-century Rosslyn Chapel in the village of Roslin in Scotland is renowned for its extravagant carved masonry and for various myths and tales, including the suggestion that the ancestor of the founder travelled to North America before Columbus, based on the supposed presence of sculptured maize and Aloe vera. Although the identification of the succulent has been questioned before, no objective analysis has been indertaken. This paper presents a comparison of the morphology of the plant with the carvings and concludes that they constitute abstract, possibly botanical, decorative features and are not illustrations of Aloe vera.

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芦荟与苏格兰罗斯林教堂植物雕刻的身份

摘要：位于苏格兰罗斯林村的15世纪初的罗斯林小教堂以其奢华的雕刻砖石和各种神话故事而闻名，其中包括创始人的祖先在哥伦布之前前往北美的说法，这是基于雕刻玉米和芦荟的存在。尽管以前对多肉植物的鉴定提出过质疑，但目前还没有进行客观的分析。本文将芦荟的形态与雕刻进行了比较，得出的结论是，它们构成了抽象的、可能是植物的、装饰性的特征，而不是芦荟的插图。

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Bradleya PLANT SCIENCES-

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2.80

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