Featured on PDR in the essay Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary
In the Middle Ages, rumours spread across Europe of a strange hybrid creature, half-animal, half-plant, known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. A hoax based on fern rhizomes? A euphemism for culled fetal lambs? Or perhaps a medieval misapprehension of cotton? Thom Sliwowski traces the roots of this fabled zoophyte.
Also appearing in the essay…
Illustration featuring 'Planta Tartarica Boromez' and other vegetal creatures
Date
1696
From
Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum
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