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Sometimes a familiar is a weirdo you pull out of the dirt. While not as popular as cats or toads, root zoophytes are a favorite among cooking witches (not as an ingredient, but as a charm.)
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Sometimes a familiar is a weirdo you pull out of the dirt. While not as popular as cats or toads, root zoophytes are a favorite among cooking witches (not as an ingredient, but as a charm.)
A perplexing mythical lamb, this medieval beast was a legend about an area of the world that Europe knew little about at the time. The vegetable lamb itself was a product of the, as of then, many unknowns.
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary is a legendary zoophyte [animal-plant] of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. Underlying the legend is the cotton plant, which was unknown in Northern Europe before the Norman conquest of Sicily. —Wikipedia
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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: a legendary plant of Central Asia that grows sheep as fruit.
Sometimes a familiar is a weirdo you pull out of the dirt. While not as popular as cats or toads, root zoophytes are a favorite among cooking witches (not as an ingredient, but as a charm.)
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Known in Africa as the "Yateveo" and in Madagascar as the "Man-Eating Tree," the Carnivorous Zoophyte is not in fact a tree but cnidarian, a distant cousin to coral polyps. Unlike marine coral these creatures do not form colonies; individual polyps are solitary and quite enormous comparatively, as marine polyps typically grow to only around 5-30mm in length.
The Zoophyte employs a "sit and wait" ambush style of predation, choosing to embed most of its body underground where it will remain for its entire life, waiting for prey to come close enough to be ensnared by its upper tentacles., which are described to be "(furious, likel starved serpents." These tentacles multiply over the Zoophyte's life; older specimens have more tentacles.
The Zoophyte is extremely aggressive and will lash out at any large animals that venture within reach until its stomach is full, after which it will fall dormant while it digests.
a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit