Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary is a semi-legendary plant of central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit. Although it owed its currency in medieval thought as a way of explaining the existence of cotton, underlying the myth is a real plant, Polypodium borametz L. It was known under various other names including the Scythian Lamb, the Borometz, and the Borametz.
External links
- [www.nal.usda.gov] Legend of the Lamb-Plant
- [www.pantheon.org] Vegetable Lamb
- [webhome.idirect.com] Barbary Lamb
- [Note] to Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.28
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