Anemone coronaria
Anemone
coronaria is one of the flower images identified on the Shroud by
botanist Avinoam Danin and Uri Baruch. Danin is a botany professor at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Uri Baruch is a pollen
specialist with the Israel Antiquities Authority. Both men are leading
authorities on the flora of Israel.
The visual identification of Anemone coronaria images seems to confirm some previous plant image identifications by Oswald Sheuermann, a German physicist, and Alan Whanger, a professor at Duke University.
In general, many if not most Shroud scholars have reservations about the reliability of the identification of plant images and the significance of the pollen data.
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