The Voynich Botanical Plants

Folio 34r. Ox-eye daisy (Callilepis laureola). This plant is native to South and East Africa. It is a perennial herb with stems sprouting from a large, poisonous, woody tuber. The Zulu use an infusion of the tuber as a purgative and to treat tapeworm, snakebite, infertility, as a pregnancy tonic and to kill maggots in cattle. Fatalities have occurred from an overdose. (1) (B)