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Note: A number of other plants have been suggested by biblical scholars, e. g., Most notably Ginseng which looks similar to the mandrake root and has fertility enhancing properties, for which it was picked by Reuben in the Bible.

blackberries, Zizyphus Lotus, the sidr of the Arabs, the banana, lily, citron, and fig.

Sir Thomas Browne, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, ch.

VII, suggests that the ' dudai ' im ' of Genesis 30: 14 is the opium poppy, because the word ' dudai ' im ' may be a reference to a woman's breasts.