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.
TRACHELOSPERMUM
Trachelospermum, genus Trachelospermum
(noun) genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems
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