Ok, plants is a little tricky as girl could find hardly any mention of plants in Torvaldsland, other than satarna, but we have to know there were plants, some trees, obviously we grow a garden in the summer for vegetables and various herbs.
girl has added some quotes on trees, and some plants that would likely be found in some/most areas in Torvaldsland, of course the further north in our region we go, the less there would likely be.
Trees
In such cases men feed on bark, and lichens and seaweed. It is not strange that the young men of torvaldsland often look to the sea, and beyond it, for their fortunes.
Marauders of Gor, p 54.
aaaaaaaaand since this one had no clue what a lichen was, she had a little visit with merriam webster...*grins*.........
lichen: any of numerous complex plantlike organisms made up of an alga and a fungus growing in symbiotic association on a solid surface, such as a rock. (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary definition #2)
Needle tree
"...and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck plankings."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141
Tur tree
...The forests of the northern temperate latitudes of Gor are countries in themselves, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs of area. They contain great numbers of various species of trees, and different portions of the forests may differ considerably among themselves. The most typical and famous tree of these forests is the lofty, reddish Tur tree, some varieties of which grow more than two hundred feet high. It is not known how far these forests extend....
We found ourselves now in a stand of the lofty Tur trees. I could see broadly spreading branches some two hundred feet or more above my head. The trunks of the trees were almost bare of branches until, so far above, branches seemed to explode in an interlacing blanket of foliage, almost obliterating the sky.....
Captive of Gor, 9:130
"Tur wood is used for galleys and frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking..."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141
Dina
The dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor; in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower; But perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.
Slave Girl of Gor - 61
Sip root
"A bitter root, which can either be made into a liquid contraceptive, or chewed, for the same result. The effect of the sip root, inmost women is effective for three or four months. In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste ofPhysicians, the effect is almost indefinate, usually requiring a releaser for it remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the second wine"
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 23
Uses: slave wine
Vegetables
At the oasis will be grown a hybrid; brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man, his bundle like a giant's hump on his back.
Outlaw of Gor, page 29
Sul paga is, when distilled, though the Sul itself is yellow, as clear as water. The Sul is a tuberous root of the Sul plant; it is a Gorean staple.
Slave girl of Gor, page 134
First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown, vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchids of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45
Uses: all of these vegetables would be used in cooking, to make sullage, and to provide seeds for the next years garden.
we would also be growing any of the herbs that we can that are in the medicinal kits......along with vegetables for the garden.