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It is basically a cake made of cow.
The leaves are on the fruit, the fruit on the leaves. What is it?
It produces a flower but it is not its fruitΝΎ it produces branches which are its fruit.
Men seize it from its home, tear apart its flesh, drink the sweet blood, then cast its skin aside.
Grown in the ground, it's taller than you. Strip off the outside, the yellow pieces you chew. What is it?
What do you purposefully put lots of in and on your body, but run away from when you encounter it outside?