Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PEIRESKIA
Pereskia, genus Pereskia, Peireskia, genus Peireskia
(noun) genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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