μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Why some trees have no fruit.

Mythological motifs. · Origin of plant characteristics. · Origin of various plant characteristics. · Other plant characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2791.7

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Filed under Sundry characteristics of trees.

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Why trees do not talk. All ask to be spared when man begins cutting them Why lightning spares the nut-tree How banyan got its milk Why no one can find flower of wild fig Why tamarind fruit is sour Why sap comes from top of palm Why fruit of sago palm looks like an eye Why sago palm gives abundant sap Why fruit of date palm looks like breasts of old woman Why the bija tree is often struck by lightning Why the roots of the banyan hang down

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