Submitted by Myriam Mahiques
The Legend of the Vegetable Lamb Plant
Architecture News - Dec 29, 2009 - 20:04 4912 views
Polypodium barometz or Cibotium barometz, (golden chicken fern, woolly fern) is a species of arborescent fern. The general consensus is that the myth refers to the root of a Chinese fern, or maybe the legend was an explanation for the cotton plant. It is very interesting to know how a simple plant that resembled an animal was searched by curious travelers and ceremonies might have been developed around it in China.
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