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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| sim plant |
A rambling, tangled
vine-like plant with huge, rolling leaves and raised in
the pasture chambers of the Nest. |
| talender |
A delicate, yellow-petaled
meadow flower, symbolic of feminine love and beauty; a
crown of talenders 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 raped. |
| telekint |
A plant of the Tahari; its
roots, mashed and mixed with water, provide a red dye. |
| tem |
A tree which produces a
black wood that is very strong; possibly akin to the Urth
wood, ebony. |
| tur |
A reddish tree having a
large trunk. |
| veminium |
A bluish wildflower
commonly found on the lower ranges of the Thentis
mountains; used in perfumes. |
| veminium,
desert |
A small, purplish flower
found in the Tahari; used in perfumes. |
