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- Instance of
- plant-derived motif
- Image
- MEK-Lebensbaum 1.tif
- Said to be same as
- world tree
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- Commons category
- Tree of life
- different from
- phylogenetic tree
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Encyclopedic overview
An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda by Oluf Olufsen Bagge 17th-century depiction of the tree of life in Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan Confronted animals, here ibexes, flank a tree of life, a very common motif in the art of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Breastfeeding before an Egyptian "sycamore"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tree of life” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.