File:Vegetable lamb specimen at the Garden Museum in the London Borough of Lambeth.jpg
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One of two specimens of the vegetable lamb of Scythia, the rhizome of the fern Cibotium barometz thought to be a plant-animal, in the United Kingdom on display at the Garden Museum in Lambeth, London. The note inside the glass reads, "This vegetable is called the Tartarian Lamb, from its resemblance in shape to that animal. It has something like four feet, and its body is covered with a kind of down. Travellers report that it will suffer no vegetable to grow within a certain distance of its seat. Sir Hans Sloan read a Memoir upon the plant before the Royal Society; for which consult their Transactions, No. 245, p.461. Mr Bell, in his 'Account of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Ispahan,' informs us that he searched in vain for this plant in the neighbourhood of Astrakhan, when at the same time the more sensible and experienced amongst the Tartars treated the whole history as fabulous. This journey was undertaken in the year 1715." |
| Date | Taken on 2 May 2009 |
| Source | [1] |
| Author | tpholland |
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