Adam and Steve and the tree of knowledge.

I've never really thought about this until recently. Its about god and stuff and more specifically the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  More specifically Genesis and the whole forbidden tree of the garden of Eden (Genesis Beginning bits).

More specifically what is it and does it have to even be edible.

A quick skim of Genesis seems that god made everything to be both vegan and every vegetation wise, to be edible in some way, rather than to be useful such as for timber or medicine and that. 

There is a pretty good video I found from Darkmatter 2525  on the subject, but more likely a TMM video debunking original sin. Basically original sin seems to be Scrumping but with a snake egging you on to do it. Not something typically that gets you thrown out of heaven, normally a clip round the ear from a parent and maybe grounding if found out.

Also what if the tree of overall good and evil and life and death, wasn't an edible species but one of those trees that self seed everywhere such as an Ash tree or for tropical folks the Tree of Heaven.

Mostly it came from an idea I had walking around and thinking back to those old Darkmatter shorts, and thinking what if it was a species inedible to us or if anything else can eat from the tree of knowledge, in our stead.  Basic ecology would have it that, if the fruit was good to eat as Genesis says then really everything should have made a beeline for it to eat it. 

Look at rainforest figs when they are in season, they are a main draw to everything fruit eating, parrots, monkeys and other fruit eating animals and insects.  And seeing as everything was vegan then if the bible is right, then surely the tree of the fruits of the king of caractacus, instead of being forbidden to us, unless we were quick would have been stripped and spread around Eden as many small seedlings through pooping animals.

Some might say it has special requirements, and I can gather certain stuff does such as Proteaceae requiring bush / veldt fire to germinate, but those aren't edible to us and tend to be cones and the like.

So either god made it so we should have our own downfall. or if he really didn't want us to eat it, he should have made it a Maple (which kinda implies gods Canadian.)