I can be twenty-four carats without ever growing in a garden patch. Irish folklore claims a leprechaun hides me where colors bend to touch the grass. What am I?
Gold
Wordplay on 'carat' (a measure of gold purity) and 'carrot' (the garden vegetable), linked to the pot of gold at the rainbow's end.
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