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When Europeans first encountered leaf insects, they believed they were actual living leaves that grew from trees.
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The opposite of this is when Europeans encountered/heard tales of cotton, They interpreted the information of it being a plant based wool equivalent as there being special trees in the east which grew sheep as fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary
Wild.