Liana Vine
This rainforest plant is an excellent source of fresh water, yielding almost a liter.
*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 One makes the first cut high, over one's head to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion to the vine.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.
~Outlaw of Gor, page 33~
Needle Tree
The evergreen Needle Tree is a valuable source of perfumed oil, it can be found in the Thentis regions of Gor.
*...and the needle trees, the evergreens...
~Raiders of Gor, page 141~
Palm
There are more than 1500 species of Palm found throughout Gor. The Fan Palm, found in the steamy jungles of Schendi is an excellent source of water, each leaf holding at least a liter cupped in the base of their stems.
Growing almost 20 feet in height with leaves spreading to form an open fanlike shape.
*One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads it's 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.
~Explorers of Gor, pages 310~
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, page 310~
Rence
Rence is a tufted reed-like plant, growing in marshy areas, it's long roots can grow to around four inches thick, lying under the surface of the water, with smaller rots sinking into the mud some 15-16 feet.
The plant bears a long single floral spike, each part being used for something, carving, caulking, making paper and food, such as rence beer and rence porridge, also made into a paste for cakes, sprinkled with it's seeds.
*A kind of paper is made from rence. The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from the main root, and several 'stems,' as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of 15-16 feet from the root; it has an excrescent, usually single floral spike.
~Raiders of Gor, page 7~
Rep
The Rep plant is a small, woody bush, grown commercially below Ar and above the Equator, it yields a whitish fibrous material found in it's seed pods.
*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, page 10~
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