#vegetable lamb

[kalpasoft]

vegetable lamb

[onichophora]

[a-book-of-creatures]

Any opinions on the Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary a.k.a. Barometz?

I bet it tastes delicious.

Also the Junior Woodchucks met one (or at least a reasonable facsimile).

[theveryworstthing]

over on patreon SpaceDancer asked for an adventurer lamb and Bee Thomas asked for literal fruit bats so i combined these ideas and drew a tartary lamb on the go.

these creatures usually spend their entire lives in one general area, tethered to their vines, but this one has gotten a hold of a giant planter pot and now runs free. over the years many have tried to capture her growing flock, but all have failed. why does she roam? how'd she figure out how to replant herself? who made all these giant pots and left them within reach of a bunch of dryad sheep? no one knows...

[sixgills]

Hey friends! This Vegetable Lamb painting is still for sale, $200, message me if interested!

[briefbestiary]

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.

[dialogue-select-rumors]

>rumors

“I heard that somewhere in East Asia there’s a species of sheep that grows from the ground like a plant”

[lizard-priestess]

VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY REFERENCE IN DUNGEON MESHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I. AM. SCREAMING.

[happytaffeta]

Okay so I have a fun question that I definitely won't regret asking the internet at large first thing on a Saturday morning. Relevant info time!

Fantasy vegetarians are definitely a thing. Fantasy vegans probably are too, I mean, we love to reflect ourselves in every little way in fiction, and dietary and ethical practices are a pretty important thing to many people.

Also in fantasy, fun and weird impossible hybrid species.

So how does my favorite tragic little cutie fit in? The vegetable lamb is a fictitious species from back in the day that is, well, a plant that grows sheep. It's just a regular old plant, mostly, but it's fruits are little bitty sheep which never leave their parent plant. They cannot go further than their stems, which attach at the navel, will allow, so their growth is limited by the size of the plant and the amount of food available within reach. If they grow wild and no one finds them, they invariably eat all the things in reach and then go hungry. In a garden situation, they could live a nice long time, fed and cared for by their gardener.

Here's the question, then.

Are food and clothes made from vegetable lamb products considered vegan? Are they considered animal products due to the behavioral and functional similarities between veg-lambs and regular sheep? Does it depend on if the product used is part of the mother plant or part of the sheep fruit?

[cupcake-souls-art]

Vegetable Lamb of Tartary linocut prints because I'm obsessed with them rn

[adhdmother]

Watcher’s top 5 beat down

Is no one else concerned with the fact that last weeks talks on cryptids and this weeks episodes on fictional foods have a significant overlap?

[kalpasoft]

vegetable lamb

[fleshmonger]

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[ozzgin]

Not the vegetable cabbage patch kid setting up interviews to get a second parent 🤣😭

I love that lol.

🎪 anon-

You know he has a little stand outside your house where he interviews the suitors. Kiddo is a certified menace.

"Better make it quick", he'll say with a business-like indifference, "my bedtime is in thirty minutes."

Meanwhile, you've been stuck doing chores inside, occasionally glancing out the window and wondering why half the village is queueing outside.

"Must be some traveling merchant", you tell yourself.

[wickedsrest-rp]

NAME: Vegetable Lamb

ALSO KNOWN AS: Barometz, Planta Tartarica Barometz

RARITY: ★★☆☆☆

THREAT LEVEL: ★☆☆☆☆ | Don’t worry about it.

DESCRIPTION: Vegetable lambs are grown all over the world in supernatural circles, but they can be hard to raise. It is recommended that only experienced botanists try to grow one. They will generally fit in a pot, and as saplings they can be easily moved around. They live for about two years. Like other sheep, the vegetable lamb can be sheared and its wool used to make clothes, although it’s in a small quantity. The vegetable lamb has both animal and plant physiology. It reproduces like a plant would, but it has an animal’s bones, blood, and flesh. They are capable of feeling pain, but are known to taste pretty good. In the spring they produce fruit which are said to be extremely sweet-tasting. There is a mutation that occurs in domesticated lines that sometimes causes the back half of a lamb to bud instead of the front half.

WEAKNESS: Why would you ever.

NOTE: Wooliam the vegetable lamb has won “most impressive vegetable lamb” at a local fair for 6 years in a row now.

OTHER VARIANTS:

Vegetable ram: Some vegetable lambs become vegetable rams in maturity, which lack the sweet temperament of the lambs they once were. Rams are likely to headbutt anyone who tries to touch them, even a trusted owner who raised them from a sprout. This can be emotionally challenging for those rearing vegetable lambs. However, the horns of a vegetable ram are potent ingredients for any kind of earth magic, and are also used in some potions. They regrow on the ram after a few months – which means you’ll be free of painful headbutts within that time frame too.

Alpine barometz: Rarely bred in captivity, these vegetable lambs grow in high altitude areas. They have thicker wooly coats and impressive beards, as well as sharp horns that don’t curl around like those of a vegetable ram. Alpine barometz don’t root into the ground, but instead use their very long roots to cling to the sides of even sheer cliffs that face the sun in the morning. This can look alarming as they resemble half of a sheep or goat stuck to a cliff. They have little need for water and are able to stay hydrated from rain and snow alone. While non-aggressive, they can make it difficult to climb the areas they cling to, and will try to eat your clothes if you attempt to pass them. Their thick wool, when harvested, can offer supernatural protection from the cold, though this typically requires a lot of wool for good coverage.

[thedman0310]

It’s the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary!

Dying to know the world building on these sheep tomatoes