animal-plant hybrids: Tartary lamb (Tartarica barometz) x fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

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Hybrid 50% animal 50%: Tartar lamb (Tartarica barometz) x fern (Pteridium aquilinum) Full width 16:9 biology zentangle illustration filling the entire image width of a fully fused hybrid Tartar lamb (Tartarica barometz) x fern (Pteridium aquilinum) symbiont. Each hybrid symbiont has many light-green fern fronds, arranged round a central stem. Each frond has a pod at the end, inside which a visible Tartary lamb is growing. The mature pods break open to reveal the lambs. The hybrid creature-plant is growing on the forest floor, and is surrounded by brown, wilted leaves at the beginning of the spring season. The entire image has strong zentangle patterns. Historical biological oddity portrayed in extreme detail in a painstakingly executed, ultradecorative zendoodle and zentangle style. At the edge of the full-width illustration, the zendoodle patterns echo those of famous contemporary zendoodle artists. The fully melded hybrid creature is illustrated in an extremely detailed style resembling that of contemporary biology illustrators.

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This looks almost like an illumination in an ancient book - which pretty much conveys the right idea: "The Mythical Tartary Lamb (or Barometz) was a legendary plant-animal from Central Asia, believed to grow like a lamb on a stem, grazing nearby grass before dying, and providing wool, with tales inspiring medieval beliefs about cotton's origin. It was a "zoophyte" (animal-plant) connected to the earth by a vegetal "umbilical cord," and the myth likely stemmed from travelers misinterpreting the woolly rhizomes of the tree fern Cibotium barometz." Gruesome!

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