File:Vegetable lamb specimen at the Garden Museum in the London Borough of Lambeth.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,084 × 2,084 pixels, file size: 1.71 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description

One of two specimens of the vegetable lamb of Scythia, the rhizome of the fern Cibotium barometz thought to be a plant-animal, in the United Kingdom on display at the Garden Museum in Lambeth, London. The note inside the glass reads,

"This vegetable is called the Tartarian Lamb, from its resemblance in shape to that animal. It has something like four feet, and its body is covered with a kind of down. Travellers report that it will suffer no vegetable to grow within a certain distance of its seat. Sir Hans Sloan read a Memoir upon the plant before the Royal Society; for which consult their Transactions, No. 245, p.461. Mr Bell, in his 'Account of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Ispahan,' informs us that he searched in vain for this plant in the neighbourhood of Astrakhan, when at the same time the more sensible and experienced amongst the Tartars treated the whole history as fabulous. This journey was undertaken in the year 1715."
Date Taken on 2 May 2009
Source [1]
Author tpholland

Licensing[edit]

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Original upload log[edit]

The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia.
Date/Time Dimensions User Comment
2013-12-21 10:19:49 2084× 2084× Karmos Uploading a file from a free published source using [[Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard|File Upload Wizard]]


This image was originally posted to Flickr by tpholland at https://flickr.com/photos/18964106@N00/3496800096. It was reviewed on 20 November 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

20 November 2016

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current09:04, 9 November 2016Thumbnail for version as of 09:04, 9 November 20162,084 × 2,084 (1.71 MB)FastilyClone (talk | contribs)Transferred from en.wikipedia (MTC!)

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Vegetable_lamb_specimen_at_the_Garden_Museum_in_the_London_Borough_of_Lambeth.jpg&oldid=685569318"