The biggest black market you've never heard of might be blooming right under your nose.

This plant could sell for between 10 and 15 thousand dollars on the open market.

And where there's big money, there are bigger risks.

We would just tie up these big M16s stuck to our heads.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday. We're heading into the old vault.

This episode originally aired April 21st, 2022, and it's part two of our series on the

Vegetable Lamb of Tartari. Dig in. Sounds delicious.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our series on the Vegetable Lamb of Tartari,

a legendary creature that appeared in Medieval and Renaissance European bestiaries and travel

logs, such as the Travels of Surgeon Mandaville. If you haven't heard part one of this series yet,

this is one where you should really go back and check that out first so you'll know what we're

talking about today. But if you're rejoining us after last time, a quick refresher on these legends,

the idea was that somewhere in Tartari, which is a vast stretch of the Asian mainland,

including what is now Central Asia, parts of China, all of Mongolia, and the whole eastern part

of Russia, there was said to live a type of zooafight or plant animal, a creature with both

animal and vegetable properties, combining aspects of a sort of bush or shrub with a sheep or a lamb.

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