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The vegetable lamb of Tartary is a plant-animal of European folklore said to inhabit the Middle East. The plant produces sheep as its fruit, which remain connected to it by an umbilical cord and so can only eat foliage that grows nearby. Likely inspired by the cotton plant.
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