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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Paradise Shoots

The lign aloe; said to be the only plant descended to us from the Garden of Eden. When Adam left Paradise, it is said, he took with him a shoot of this tree, which he planted in the land where he settled, and from which all other lign aloes have been propagated.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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