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[โ€“] a_g_dizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This assumes that the book is a technical manuscript so the drawings of plants are intended as technical drawings of actual plants. But this might not be the case. For all we know the book might be a work of fiction so the illustrator took creative liberties while drawing the plants.