Vegetable Lamb Cibotium Barometz

The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant.

Vegetable lamb cibotium barometz.

Agnus scythicus or planta tartarica barometz is a legendary zoophyte of central asia once believed to grow sheep as its fruit.
The vegetable lamb of tartary latin.
It was known under various other names including the scythian lamb the borometz barometz and borametz the latter three being different spellings of the local word for lamb.

Underlying the myth is a real plant cibotium barometz a fern of the genus cibotium.
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The vegetable lamb in a 17th century illustration.

It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant.
The vegetable lamb in a 17th century illustration cibotium barometz the vegetable lamb of tartary latin.
It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant.

The origins of this seemingly cute medieval creature is based upon a real plant called cibotium barometz a species of tree fern that looks alot like a lamb.
Agnus scythicus or planta tartarica barometz is a legendary zoophyte of central asia once believed to grow sheep as its fruit.
One plant bears a host of provocative names.

Shukernature vegetable lamb of tartary plant animal wholly amazing.
Art and science of the eighteenth century vegetable world at www.
Albion borges and barometz excerpts personal history of reading.

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Moran also describes the fern thought to be the origin of this myth cibotium barometz.
The ferns woolly rhizome was thought to be the inspiration for the mythical vegetable lamb of tartary.

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Cibotium barometz the golden chicken fern or woolly fern is a species of tree fern native to parts of china and to the western part of the malay peninsula.
Other origin stories say it was inspired by the chinese watersheep.

The lamb of tartary also known as the vegetable lamb of tartary the scythian lamb and the borometz borametz barametz or barometz agnus scythicus or planta tartarica barometz is a legendary cryptid of central asia.
The vegetable lamb of tartary latin.
Much like the veggie lamb it grew from a plant connected by a stem to the animal.