Plants From Mythology
- Austras Koks: a tree which grows from the start of the Sun's daily journey across the sky in Latvian mythology
- Barnacle tree: mythical tree believed in the Middle Ages to have barnacles that opened to reveal geese. The story may have started from goose barnacles growing on driftwood.
- Lotus tree: a plant in Greek mythology bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness. It may have been real (a type of Jujube (perhaps Ziziphus lotus) or the Date Palm).
- Moly: a magic herb in Greek mythology with a black root and white blossoms
- Raskovnik: a magic plant in Serbian mythology which can open any lock
- Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: a mythical plant supposed by medieval thinkers to explain the existence of cotton
- Yggdrasil: the World tree of Norse mythology
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