Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

Category: Mysteries

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary is a legendary plant of central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit. The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all the plants were gone, both the plant and sheep died.

Although it owed its currency in medieval thought as a way of explaining the existence of cotton, underlying the myth is a real plant, Cibotium barometz, a fern of the genus Cibotium. It was known under various other names including the Scythian Lamb, the Borometz, Barometz and the Borametz. This plant produces a woolly mass supported by a number of stems. The Tradescant Museum of Garden History has one under glass.

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