Ka-la-na Trees

"Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member of the Ubar's family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 68 "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." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 96 "These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast,herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a cast for themselves. Even with the harnessed might of several huge tharlarion drawing toward the opposite shore the crossing took us several pasangs downriver." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, paged 3 - 4 [in the Footnote] ~才 "Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor;" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 217 ~才 "Ho-Hak reached down and unwrapped the leather from the yellow bow of supple Ka-la-na." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 19 "...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket...I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave...It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 114 ~才 "The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 250 ~才

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Needle Trees

"...and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck plankings." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141

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Palms - Fan Palms 08-24-02

"There is an incredible variety of trees in the rain forest, how many I cannot conjecture. There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone. Some of these palms have leaves which are twenty feet in length. One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened 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." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 310 ~才

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Tem-wood

--Lances of the Wagon Peoples-- "The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 15 ~才 "Tuchuk women, unveiled, in their long leather dresses, long hair bound in braids, tended cooking pots hung on tem-wood tri-pods over dung fires." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 27 ~才 "The wagons of the Wagon Peoples are, in their hundreds and thousands, in their brilliant, variegated colors, a glorious sight. Surprisingly the wagons are almost square, each the size of a large room. Which is drawn by a double team of bosk, four in a team, with each team linked to its wagon tongue, the tongues being joined by tem-wood crossbars. The two axles of the wagon are also of tem-wood, which perhaps, because of its flexibility, joined with the general flatness of the southern Gorean plains, permits the width of the wagon. The wagon box, which stands almost six feet from teh ground, is formed of black, lacquered planks of tem-wood. Inside the wagon box, which is square, there is fixed a rounded, tentlike frame, covered with the taut, painted, varnished hides of bosks. These hides are richly colored, and often worked with fantastic designs, each wagon competing with its neighbor to be the boldest and most exciting." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 30 - 31 ~才 --In the Pleasure Gardens of Saphrar of Turia-- "there was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple. " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218 ~才 "...Tem-wood for rudders and oars..." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 141

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Tur Trees

"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 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." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45 "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;" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 217 ~才 "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 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219 "The camp, and dancing circle, of Verna," said the first girl, Tana, "lies north and east of Laura. Go to the slave compounds at the outskirts of Laura. Then, where the forest begins, look for a Tur tree, blazed ten feet above the ground, with the point of a girl's spear. From this tree, travel generally north, seeking similarly blazed trees, a quarter of a passang apart. There are fifty such trees. At the fiftieth there is a double blaze. Go then north by northeast. Again trees are blazed, but now, at the foot of the trunk, by the mark of a sleen knife. Go twenty such trees. then look for a Tur tree, torn by lightning. A passang north by northeast from that tree, again look for blazed trees, but now the blazing is, as before, high on the trunk, and made by a girl's spear. Again go twenty such trees. You will then be in the vicinity of Verna's dancing circle. Her camp, on the north bank of a tiny stream, well concealed, is two passangs to the north." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 39 "I lay in the center of a clearing. I could see lofty Tur trees surrounding the clearing. We were deep in the forest, some where within one of the stands of the mighty Tur trees. I where within one of the stands of the might Tur Trees. I could see them, on all sides, at the edges of the clearing, rising beautifully a hundred, two hundred feet toward the blackness of the Gorean night, the brightness of the stars, and then, almost at the top, exploding into a broad canopying of interlaced branches. I could see the stars overhead. But through the leafed branches of the trees I could catch only a glimpses of them. There was grass in the clearing. I could feel it beneath my back. I saw, to one side of the clearing, a short, stout slave post. with two rings. No slave was bound to it" Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 127

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