Plants can also "wear their hearts on their leaves".
This is a woodcut image of incensaria from the Hortus Sanitatis (1491). The heart shapes were probably intended to remind readers that the plant's leaves were initially heart shaped.
This is a woodcut image of incensaria from the Hortus Sanitatis (1491). The heart shapes were probably intended to remind readers that the plant's leaves were initially heart shaped.
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