Capparis argentatus
Capparis argentatus is one of the flower images identified on the Shroud byAvinoam 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 Capparis argentatus images seems to confirm, at least in general, 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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