Plants of Gor

Brak Bush Branches of this plant are nailed over doors during the Waiting Hand to discourage bad luck from entering the house in the New Year. "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. It is thought that...the branches of the Brak Bush discourage entry of bad luck into the houses of the citizens." Assassin of Gor, page 211 * Dina A small, multiple petaled flower resembling the rose; sometimes called the slave flower. "...my own brand was the '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 most frequently, as the slave flower..." Slave Girl of Gor, page 61 * Flaminium A flower; scarlet, with five petals. "There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us." Hunters of Gor, page 154 * 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, page 217 * Ka-la-na Trees Yellow trees that bear a red fruit from which wine is made. The wood is used in ship building and in making the long peasant bows. "...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." Captive of Gor, page 114 * Kanda "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, particularly in the southern hemisphere, where leaf is more abundant." Nomads of Gor, page 43 * Katch "...a foliated leaf vegetable called Katch..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 * Kes One of the main ingredients in sullage. "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, …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, page 45 * Leech Plant Attaches fanglike hollow thorns into the victim in order to suck his blood, which nourishes the plant. "Once i shouted in pain. 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 and contracted 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, page 33 * Needle Tree Evergreens from the northern forests, used in ship building "...and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck plankings." Raiders of Gor, page 141 * Rence Grown in the marshes. Used for food, fuel, wooden utensils, cloth, and paper. "The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper…from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further its pith is edible…" Raiders of Gor, page 7 * Rep A plant grown mainly for cloth. Seems to be cotton-like. "...for example, rep-cloth....Some rep is grown, for cloth..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 * Sa-Tarna The yellow grain, staple crop of Gor. Used in making the yellow Sa-Tarna bread and in the brewing of Pagar-Sa-Tarna (Paga) "Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste,  and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter." Tarnsman of Gor, page 43 * Talendar The yellow Gorean flower associated with beauty and passion. "The talendar is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talendars. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talendars in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves." Raiders of Gor, pages 216-217 * Tem-wood A tree which produces a black wood, used in ship building. "...Tem-wood for rudders and oars..." Raiders of Gor, page 141 * Tospit A small, peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, it is bitter, but edible. "...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, page 59 * Tur A tree, said to be the inspiration for the name of the city of Turia. Provides wood for ship building and the host of the parasite, Tur-Pah, one of the ingredients of sullage. "...there was one large trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled it's 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, page 217 * Veminium There are two types of vemimium; the bluish flower found on the Thentis range, and the purplish Desert Veminium. "The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range;..." Assassin of Gor, page 163