| Book of Knowledge Plants |
| brak bush: a shrub whose leaves have a purgative effect when chewed. traditionally, branches of it are nailed to house doors during the Waiting Hand to discourage the entry of bad luck into the house for the new year. carpet plant: a plant of the rainforest area inland of Schendi, having tendrils that are sometimes used as a source of drinking water. celane melon: a melon akin to Urth's honeydew. dates: juicy and fat from the City of Tor. dina: a small, short-stemmed flower indigenous to hillsides. sometimes called the 'slave flower', it is often used as a design for slave brands and sometimes as a slave name. flahdah: a tree of the Tahari having lanceolate leaves; the trunk leans, like that of an Urth palm tree. flaminium: a largish scarlet flower having 5 petals. ka-la-na tree: a tree with very strong yellow wood, used for making bows. kanda: a shrub of the Gorean desert; a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots, while chewing the leaves has an addictive narcotic effect katch: foliated leaf vegetable. kes: a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage kort: a large, brownish, thick-rinded, spherical vegetable, usually 6 inches in width. the interior is yellowish and heavily seeded. coming from the Tahari, the kort is frequently served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg larma: succulent fruit, similar to the Urth peach. the larma is sometimes sliced, fried, and served with browned-honey sauce. offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slavegirl to her Master is a silent plea for the girl to be ravished. leech plant: a hemovorous plant that fastens two hollow, fang-like thorns into its victim, through which it can suck the blood that nourishes it. liana vine: a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water needle tree: a tree of the Thentis region, whose oil is used in perfumes olives : are commonly from the city of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also red olives which come from the groves of Tyros. ram-berries: small, succulent berries redfruit: similar in flesh and taste to apples of Urth. rence: a tufted, reed-like plant that grows in the marshes. the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. the grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. rep: a fiber plant similar to cotton sa-tarna (lit. 'life-daughter'): grain, specifically wheat sim plant: a rambling, tangled vine-like plant with huge, rolling leaves, raised in the pasture chambers of the Nest. sip root: a bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wine. sul: a tuberous vine-borne fruit similar to the Urth potato. Often served sliced and fried, it is also the principal ingredient in sullage and sul-paga. ta-grapes: big, sweet, and seedless; they are imported from the fabled hillside vineyards of Tyros, ally to Cos. talender: delicate, yellow-petaled meadow flower, symbolic of feminine love and beauty; a crown of talendars is often worn by a free woman during the Companionship ceremoney; worn in a slavegirl's hair, it is a silent plea for her to be ravished. telekint: a plant of the Tahari; its roots, mashed + mixed with water, provide a red dye. tem: a tree which produces a black wood that is very strong; ebony? teslik: a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in breeding wine. tospit: A bitter, juicy, citrus fruit; yellowish in color, somewhat similar to Urth's small tangerine. from the orchards of Turia. Long stemmed topsits contain an even number of seeds and are rare. tur: a reddish tree having a large trunk turian olives: red olives, primarily from Turia veminium: a bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower ranges of the Thentis mountains; used in perfumes. veminium, desert: small, purplish flower found in the Tahari; used in perfumes. |
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