Flora of Gor

Arctic flowers
The tundra at this time of year belies its reputation for bleakness In many places it bursts into bloom with small flowers Almost all of the plants of this nature are perennials, as the growing season is too short to permit most annuals to complete their growing cycle In the winter buds of many of these plants lie dormant in a fluffy sheath which protects them from cold Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole None of these, interestingly, is poisonous, and none possesses thorns During the summer plants and flowers will grow almost anywhere in the arctic except on or near the glacial ice." Beasts of Gor, pg. 196, by John Norman.

Brak Bush
"Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect." Assassin of Gor, pg. 211, by John Norman.

Carpet Plant
"I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied this simple bandage shut with the tendrils of a carpet plant." Explorer of Gor, pg. 347, by John Norman.

Clover
"I set her down on a bed of green clover Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees." Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 96, by John Norman.

Cocoa trees
"This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased It was very rich and creamy "Yes, Mistress," said the girl "It is very good," I said "Thank you, Mistress," she said "Is it from Earth?" I asked "Not directly," she said "Many things here, of course, ulti- mately have an Earth origin It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth" "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked "No, Mistress," she said "We obtain the beans, from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who, in turn, obtain them in the tropics" Kajira of Gor, pg. 61, by John Norman.

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 more frequently, as the slave flower." Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 61, by John Norman.

Fan Palm
"One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an open fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped at the base of each leaf's stem." Fern<
"You are aware of course," I mentioned, "that the pleasure gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves -not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent- and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wandering about among the shrubs and ferns?" Nomads of Gor, pg. 302, by John Norman.

Festal
"What did you see?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "What did you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery," he said, "some grass, some rence, two trees." "What sort of shrubbery?" I asked. "Some festal," he said, "some tes, a bit of tor." Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 30, by John Norman.

Flahdah
"Occasionally we passed a water hole, and the tents of nomads. About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched with lanceolate leaves." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 72, by John Norman.

Flaminium
"There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us." Hunters of Gor, pg. 154, by John Norman.

Flower trees
And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. I knew that the clusters of flowers which, cluster upon cluster, graced those linear, hanging stems, would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues." Nomads of Gor, pg. 217, by John Norman.

Gieron
"My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga. "The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague." Explorers of Gor, pg. 154, by John Norman.

Grass
"At the edge of the Thentis Mountains, in the driest areas, the grass is short. As one moves in an easterly direction it becomes taller, ranging generally from ten to eighteen inches in height; as one moves even further east it can attain a height of several feet, reaching as high as the knees of a man riding a kaiila. On foot, it is easier to become lost in such grass than in the northern forests." Savages of Gor, pg. 65, by John Norman.

Hemp
"A Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows." Raiders of Gor, pg. 2, by John Norman.

Hogarthe trees
"On the rise, there were two trees, white barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves. They stood within some 40 to 50 feet of another and both were outlined dramatically against the sky... They were Hogarthe trees, named for Hogarthe one of the early explorers of the barrens... They were reminiscent of the poplar trees on earth." Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 300, by John Norman.

Ka-la-na trees
"Ho-Hak reached down and unwrapped the leather from the yellow bow of supple Ka-la-na Raiders of Gor, page 19 Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor." Nomads of Gor, pg. 217, by John Norman.

Kanda
"Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a string of rolled kanda leaf. The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in desert regions on Gor, are extremely toxic, but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed into strings and, chewed or sucked, are much favored by many Goreans" Nomads of Gor, pg. 43, by John Norman.

Kes shrub
"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 orchards 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, pg. 45, by John Norman.

Leech plant
"Two fangs had struck into my calf. An ost, I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded andcont- racted like small ugly lungs. The leech plant strikes like a cobra, and fastens two hollow thorns into its victim. The chemical responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it." Outlaw of Gor, pg. 33, by John Norman.

Liana Vine
"Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion to the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water." Explorers of Gor, pg. 310, by John Norman.

Lotus flower
"From where I sat I could see two lovely pools, in which lotuslike plants floated; one of the pools was large enough for swimming; the other, I supposed, was stocked with tiny, bright fish from the various seas and lakes of Gor." Nomads of Gor, pg. 218, by John Norman.

Needle Tree
"..and the needle trees, the evergreens for masts and spars and cabin and deck planking." Raiders of Gor, pg. 141, by John Norman.

Palm Tree
"There is an incredible variety of trees in the rainforest, how many I cannot conjecture. There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone." Explorers of Gor, pg. 310, by John Norman.

Pomegranate trees
"Pomegranate orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said "Gardens lie inward There is even a pond, between two of the groves of date palms." Tribesman of Gor, pg. 174, by John Norman.

Rence
" Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominantly in the delta of the Vosk. I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar." Nomads of Gor, pg. 49, by John Norman.

Rep
"Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator." Raiders of Gor, pg. 10, by John Norman.

Sajel
"My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga." "The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague." Explorer of Gor, pg. 154-55, by John Norman.

Sim
"I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vine-like plants with huge, rolling leaves, raised under square energy lamps fixed in the ceilings of the broad pasture chambers." Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 214, by John Norman.

Sip
"A bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wine." Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 45, 54 and 319, by John Norman.

Sweet bush
"After one emerges from the sweat lodge one goes to a stream and washes in the cold water. One cleans with a knife or sharpened stick even under one's fingernails. A small fire of sweet-brush and needles, from the needle trees, is then built. One rubs the smoke fromthis fire into one's body." Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 308, by John Norman.

Talender
"The talender is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Compaions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talenders in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves." Raiders of Gor, pg. 217, by John Norman.

"Harold left the walk and stepped carefully to avoid trampling a patch of talenders, a delicate yellow flower, often associated in the Gorean mind with love and beauty." Nomads of Gor, pg. 218-19, by John Norman.

"The talender, fixed in her hair, is a slaves girl's wordless confession, which, commonly, she dares not speak, that she cares for her Master" Hunters of Gor, pg. 65, by John Norman.

"To put talenders in the neck rope of of the girl at the prow, of course, was a mockery, indicative of her possible disposition as a pleasure slave." Raiders of Gor, pg. 217, by John Norman.

Telekint
"The drover threw back the hood of his burnoose, and pulled down the veil about his face. Beneath the burnoose he wore a skullcap. The rep-cloth veil was red; it had been soaked in a primitive dye, mixed from water and the mashed roots of the telekint; when he perspired, it had run; his face was stained." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 83, by John Norman.

Tem-wood
"There was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple." Nomads of Gor, pg. 15, by John Norman.

Teriotrope
"I looked upwards, and about the room. The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, veminia and teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant. Lola had done well." Guardsman of Gor, pg. 20, by John Norman.

Tes
"What did you see?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "What did you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery," he said, "some grass, some rence, two trees." "What sort of shrubbery?" I asked. "Some festal," he said, "some tes, a bit of tor." Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 30, by John Norman.

Teslik
"a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in breeding wine." Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 320, by John Norman.

Thentis Needle Tree
"That scent, I knew, a distillation of a hundred flowers, nurtured like a priceless wine, was a secret guarded by the perfumers of Ar. It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale" Marauders of Gor, pg. 114, by John Norman.

Thorn Bush
"Like the camps of many nomads the camp was on high ground, which commanded the terrain, but was itself concealed among scrub brush and boulders. There was a corral of thorn brush, uprooted and woven together, which served for kaiila." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 137, by John Norman.

Tor shrub
"I, too, think it is a tor shrub," I said. The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety. It is a very lovely shrub in bloom. It was not in bloom now, of course, as it flowers in the fall... "The tor shrub," I said, "does not grow higher than a man's waist."Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 30, by John Norman.

Tospit bush
"I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white, peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius They are bitter but edible." Nomads of Gor, pg. 59, by John Norman.

Trees of the Barrens
"Lines of such trees, in the Barrens, and low, slowping geodesics, watersheds, tend to mark, often the location of the tiny streams which occur in the cuntry." Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 33, by John Norman.

Tur Tree
"There was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name." Nomads of Gor, pg. 217, by John Norman.

Tur-Pah
"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 orchards of Tur trees;" Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

Turl bush
Such hides may be waterproofed by suspending them from, and wrapping them about, a small tripod of sticks, this set over a small fire on which, to produce the desiderated smoke, the leaves and branches of the turl bush are heavily strewn." Savages of Gor, pg. 32, by John Norman.

Veminium, Desert
"The petals of veminium, the "Desert Veminium" purplish, as opposed to the "Thentis Veminium," bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed in oil. This oil is used to perfume water. This water is not drunk, but is used in middle and upper-class homes to rinse the eating hand..."Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 50, by John Norman.

Veminium, Thentis
"The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wild flower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range." Assassin of Gor, pg. 163, by John Norman.

Verr Grass
"On the shaded sides of some rocks, and the shaded slopes of hills, here and there, grew stubborn, brownish patches of verr grass." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 71, by John Norman.

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