Why khijur leaves are long and narrow: split with an arrow

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Why khijur leaves are long and narrow: split with an arrow.

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Various origins of plant characteristics. · Miscellaneous reasons for plant characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2741.5

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Plant characteristics from accident to original plant.

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Bean laughs till it splits: cause of black stripe. (Cf. A2793.1, F1025.1.) Yams dropped by bird and split: why some are good and some bad. (Cf. A2793.3.) Sky rests on top of trees: hence flat leaves. (Cf. A2761.3.) Bush loses clothes in shipwreck: hence catches passerby looking for clothes. (Cf. A2792.1.)

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