E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Paradise Shoots.
The lign aloe; said to be the only plant descended to us from the Garden of Eden. When Adam left Paradise, it is said, he took with him a shoot of this tree, which he planted in the land where he settled, and from which all other lign aloes have been propagated.
