The Voynich Botanical Plants

Folio 13r. Banana (Musa). Linnaeus may have given the banana the botanical name Musa, after Antonius Musa, botanist and physician to the Roman Emperor Augusta, (c. 23 BC). Musa’s brother was Euphorbus, physician to King Juba II of Numidia, (ancient Libya), the plant Euphorbia was names after him. Pliny the elder noted that the people of India ate bananas. Arab traders introduced bananas into West Africa and Portuguese sailors started banana plantations in the Canary lslands. (1) (C)