Gundelia Tournefortii
Gundelia
Tournefortii, pictured here, 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 Gundelia Tournefortii images confrims, seemingly, 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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