Elanthian Flora Volume II
Name: Acantha
Description: Noted for its herbal properties when the leaves are eaten, acantha restores a portion of blood. Acantha can be found in climates ranging from near desert to moist ocean beaches. The plant features elongated light green leaves.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven, Zul Logoth, Ta'Illistim, Ta'Vaalor
Other Names: Akbutege.
Name: Agave
Description: Cactus plants having spiny-margined leaves and flowers in tall spreading panicles, some cultivated for their fiber or sap, or for ornament. Agave spreads vegetatively by stoloniferous shoots, which are soft enough to be handled or jostled. After a decade and a half of growth, depending on the annual rainfall, the plant has stored sufficient reserves in its starchy core to flower. This involves production of a flower stalk almost twice as tall as a giantkin. After flowering and production of seed, the plant dies. The starchy core can be baked and served, as a foodstuff, or the sap of the flower stalk can be fermented to produce an alcoholic beverage. The fibers from the leaves can be woven into mats, rope, and baskets.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Aloeas
Description: Moss green leaves with long stems, similar in shape to the oak leaf, routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may also be foraged wild. The small tree displays the ability to turn towards the movements of the sun (this is known as heliotropism), and might be related to the heliotrope. When the stems are consumed, bleeding from the head or neck staunches, both internal and external, and of heal bruising of the brain. Aloeas grows in colder, wet areas, such as along riverbanks.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Arfandas.
Name: Ambrominas
Description: Ambrominas bushes have oval leaves of a dark green hue, routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, it has the property of healing minor cuts, bruises, and scrapes. It grows in grasslands and hilly areas.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Arnuminas.
Name: Angelica
Description: The edible root, leaves, and stalks are popular for baking and liqueurs. Also used in potions to replace missing limbs. Commercially found in Pinefar, grown in climates that afford rich soils with a sufficient rainfall to avoid drought. Short-lived, once the plant flowers, it goes to seed.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Anise
Description: A bulbous plant with feathery foliage that flowers and goes to seed. Licorice flavor, often used in baking, candy, or liqueur. Can be boiled like a vegetable.
Found In: Often found at special celebrations.
Other Names: None.
Name: Asparagus
Description: Fern-like plant that loves a moist habitat, also a spring vegetable. Stalks are edible when young and before they flower.
Found In: Often found at special celebrations.
Other Names: None.
Description: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Bolmara Description: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Brostheras Description: See Grasses.
Name: Bulrush
Description: Aquatic or wetland herbs having grasslike leaves and usually clusters of small, often brown spikelets. Similar to cattails and papyrus.
Found In: Old Ta'Faendryl
Other Names: None.
Name: Bur-Clover
Description: This prostrate, spreading plant, related to the alfalfa/sweet clover family, hugs the ground. Its creeping stems may vary in length from a few inches to several feet. Leaflets are very similar to clover, but occasionally have whitish and dark red spots across the surface. Stems are round and smooth, and the yellow-orange flowers gather in very loose clusters. Seed pods appear spirally twisted and are covered with hooked spines, or barbs. The roots of the but-clover plant can be finely ground into a powder and combined with other ingredients to make a healing potion, helpful for missing eyes.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Baldakur.
Name: Burdock
Description: Weedy plants bearing pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit. The edible young stalks that emerge from the roots, in Spring, are tasty raw or when sautied. Try your hand at gathering one, and test this taste treat.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace, Pinefar/Aenatumgana, Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Cactacae
Description: Routinely sold for its medicinal properties, may also be foraged wild. When consumed, catacae spine has the useful property of removing unsightly scars from arms, hands, and legs. Has sharp long brown thorns. Catacae cactus grows in desert or near-desert conditions.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Dagmather.
Name: Cactus
Description: Succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions, often bearing variously colored, showy flowers. If you're very careful, you can forage around the spines and come away with a flower.
Found In: All except Icemule Trace and Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Cactus (strigae)
Description: The flesh of the strigae cactus possesses properties akin to the properties of cuctucae berries, but the spines are sufficiently sharp that acquiring the flesh may do as much harm as the herb can heal. Flat and paddle-shaped, the cactus plants supposedly grow abundantly in desert areas.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace
Other Names: Gariig.
Name: Calamia Fruit
Description: The fruit of the calamia plant is large and a light red color close to pink. Routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, calamia fruit can restore a mangled limb to its proper shape and form. The properties of calamia are greatest when the fruit has been dried, but few bother to do so, seeing as the fruit is amazingly effective when fresh. Calamia grows in very warm, moist climates.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Curfalaka.
Name: Carrot (common)
Description: Vegetable with an edible orange root and leafy green stalks.
Found In: Often found at special celebrations.
Other Names: None.
Name: Carrot (wild)
Description: Brackets of tiny white flowers clustered on stalks found by roadsides and in meadows, a favorite plant for ladybugs.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Cattails
Description: Cattails are the most familiar of all wetland plants. Their swaying brown flower clusters can be seen at the edges of ponds, rivers, lakes, or just about any place where there is shallow, standing water for at least part of the year. The common cattail can grow up to nine feet in height. Probably the most distinctive thing about the cattails are their flowers, as each possesses thousands of tiny brown flowers all tightly compressed into a compact mass on the top of their stems. During late summer and early autumn, these structures will begin to come apart, releasing their seeds into the wind as they do so.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Chicory
Description: A perennial herb, chicory has rayed flower heads with blue florets. Often the root is ground and used for a coffee substitute, or as an adulterant. The leaves of the chicory plant can be used in salads, despite the fact that it's bitter.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Cinquefoil
Description: Common cinquefoil stems are hairy and grow somewhat prostrate along the ground. The more ornamental varieties can rise up and grow in clumps or tufts, reaching two foot lengths, or grow nearly prostrate along the ground. The leaves are palmately divided into five leaflets, similar to strawberry leaves, coarsely toothed leaflets that have pale undersides. Common cinquefoil flowers are yellow, one per stem and fairly conspicuous.
Found In: Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Corn
Description: Corn is a grain crop that grows on a stalk and produces an "ear." Grain-type corn is not harvested fresh, it is allowed to dry on the stalk and then is harvested with a thresher. This type of corn is used primarily in animal feed or in cereal products.
Found In: River's Rest, Solhaven, Ta'Illistim
Other Names: None.
Name: Cothinar
Description: Cothinar flowers may be foraged wild. When consumed, cothinar flowers share the properties of acantha leaves, save in that they are a bit more powerful. Cothinar grows in colder, barren areas, and thrives in the winter months.
Found In: All except Old Ta'Faendryl Other Name:Cusamar.
Name: Cuctucae
Description: When consumed, cuctucae berries shares the properties of acantha, but without the pause for digestion and healing required by acantha. Cuctucae bushes are most readily found in higher elevations and cooler climates, and the small, dusky blue berries may be foraged wild.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace
Other Names: Dugmuthur.
Name: Daggit
Description: A member of the carrot family, the daggit plant produces a white root with a scarlet blush near the base where it meets the foliage. Red-stemmed green-leafed foliage can be used to create a wine-hued dye. The edible roots can be mashed and blended to make a potion that replaces missing eyes.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Eggplant
Description: Eggplant belongs to the family that also includes tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes. Comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from round and white, to elongated, pear-shaped and deep purple.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Ephlox moss
Description: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Feverfew
Description: These single, white and yellow, daisy-like flowers grow den sely on upright bushes. The dry leaf, flower and/or seed may be made into tea or tincture, providing a valuable tonic for healing head and neck wounds.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Fig (creeping)
Description: This aggressive, beautiful evergreen vine is a relative of the edible fig, but bears little resemblance to its close cousin. Creeping fig is an enthusiastic climber able to scramble up vertical surfaces when aided and trained. This vine covers surfaces with a tracery of fine stems that are densely covered with small heart-shaped leaves held closely to the surface, creating a mat of foliage. Pale green in color, the fig fruits are very small.
Found In: Ta'Illistim
Other Names: None.
Name: Ginger
Description: The large, fleshy rhizome of the plant has a characteristic staghorn-like appearance. Dried ginger is usually sold in form of an off-white to very light brown powder. Can be used in cooking and baking, as well as candies and teas or other beverages.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Ginkgo
Description: Sometimes called a living fossil, the Ginkgo is one of the oldest living deciduous tree species. Distinctive bi-lobed and fanlike leaves, which turn a beautiful golden yellow in autumn. Produces an edible nut, which needs to be roasted before brewing in tea. Teas and potions can heal eye and torso wounds.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Gorse
Description: Gorse is a spiny evergreen shrub related to the pea family, and is dense and stiff, forming impenetrable thickets. Its erect angular stems have spreading branches ending in thorns and green leaves that take the form of branching spines. Flowers are yellow and shaped like pea-blossoms, clustered near the ends of the branches. Fruit pods resemble pea pods that burst, expelling the seeds. Gorse has been used for wine.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Haphip
Description: Routinely sold for its medicinal properties, may also be foraged wild. Haphip root has the useful property of removing scarring from the face and neck of those who consume it. The tree is fairly rare, and grows in hot, humid conditions where it receives a great deal of moisture. Only harvesting a small amount of root is recommended, to avoid killing the tree.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Hegheg.
Name: Lettuce
Description: Edible leaves that grow in a bunch around a central core. Varieties of leaf type and color make for interesting salads. Usually eaten raw, often dressed with oil, vinegar, and herbs.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Manroot
Description: All parts of this rapidly growing, often invasive plant are exceedingly bitter. Touch your tongue to a cut root and your jaw will lock. This strong a chemical defense indicates potential medicinal use. Related to the cucumber family, which includes melons and gourds, the manroot is a veritable pharmacoepia. Edible stalks, used in teas and potions, can heal limb scars.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Marillis
Description: The dark red, small berries of the marillis plant have properties similar to acantha, cothinir, and cuctucae. Marillis grows most commonly in colder hills and mountains.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Mirenna.
Name: Mustard
Description: The easily distinguished flowers have four petals arranged diagonally ("cruciform") and alternating with the four sepals. Used to make woad, an important dye source. Most important commercially are the black mustard and white mustard. These yellow-flowered annuals resemble each other and are used more or less similarly. They are cultivated for the seeds, which are ground and used as a condiment, usually mixed to a paste with vinegar or oil, sometimes with spices or with an admixture of starch to reduce the pungency. Mustards are also grown as salad plants and for greens. The white mustard is used in some places as forage for sheep and as green manure. Black mustard seeds are more pungent than the white and yield a yellowish, biting oil that has also been useful in medicine.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Nettle
Description: Nettle plants grow two to three feet tall, bearing dark green leaves with serrated margins, and small flowers covered with tiny hairs on the leaves and stems. When brushed, Nettles can inject an irritant into any skin that comes into contact with the plant. The stinging reaction is caused by the plant hairs injecting a compound containing formic acid, histamine, and other irritants. This stinging activity is lost when the plant is dried or cooked, and the tender tops of young first-growth nettles are especially delicious and nutritious.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Ocotillo
Description: A cactus-like desert shrub with slender naked spiny branches that, after the rainy season, put forth foliage and clusters of red tubular flowers.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Pea
Description: The leaves of the pea plant have three leaflets that are elliptic to lanceolate, green and pubescent above and silvery greyish-green with longer hairs below. The flowers are yellow with red/reddish brown lines or a red outside, borne in terminal racemes. Pods are straight to sickle shaped, glabrous, and glandular. The erect shrub or short-lived perennial legume is often grown as an annual crop.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Pennyroyal
Description: This strongly aromatic herb is a low-growing plant with a slen der, erect, much-branched, somewhat hairy and square stem. The leaves are small, thin, and rather narrow. In summer, close flower clusters appear, consisting of a few pale-bluish flowers. The entire herb has a strong mintlike odor and pungent taste. Their edible stems are used in oils and rubs. Brewed into a tea or potion, it can heal major head and neck wounds.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Peppermint
Description: Green peppermint hearts can be obtained freely in Zephyr Hall.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Pothinir
Description: See Grasses.
Name: Rose-Marrow
Description: A member of the leguminous family. Staggered blackish-green leaves climb tall stalks, nearly hiding scarlet-edged white blossoms that eventually give way to small, rounded seed pods. Small knoblike nodules found on the roots can be made into a healing potion, helpful for minor head and neck wounds.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Rewk.
Name: Rosemary
Description: A decent spice, as well as a fragrant garden plant, with needle-like glossy, dark green leaves and showy petite blue flowers.
Found In: Ta'Illistim
Other Names: None.
Name: Sage (wild)
Description: The sage plant is a member of the herb family, and grows in small rounded clumps of aromatic grayish-green opposite leaves. Great when used in stews and for seasoning meats, mostly fowl. When left to its own, wild sage will grow woody and tall, but its distinctive aroma is still present.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Seaweed (various)
Description: Often edible, sometimes used to make rope or clothing.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle, Solhaven River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Sovyn
Description: Sovyn clove is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. The cloves of which people speak are actually the small, dried flowers of the sovyn bush; without time to dry in the sun, their healing powers are lost. Sovyn clove, when consumed, may miraculously restore an entire missing limb to a person, so long as the limb has not been recently severed.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Siran.
Name: Spearmint
Description: May be foraged in several places in the vicinity of Wehnimer's Landing. Eating spearmint leaves is good for the breath and is a remarkable digestive aid.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Strawberry
Description: A low-growing plant with white flowers and an aggregate fruit that consists of a red fleshy edible receptacle and numerous seedlike fruitlets.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven, Icemule Trace (probably hothouse)en
Other Names: None.
Name: Strawberry (wild)
Description: Bears smaller fruit than its cultivated cousin, but much more flavorful. Some diligent foraging might yield this sweet treasure.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Sweetfern
Description: An aromatic deciduous shrub having narrow, deeply lobed, fernlike leaves and minute flowers grouped in catkinlike heads. Edible stalks can be brewed into teas and potions that heal limb wounds.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Talneo
Description: A member of the leguminous family. Long, tapered yellow-green leaves emerge from a vine-like stalk, the tendrils of which can be trained to climb. Draping cascades of periwinkle blue flowers eventually turn to see, producing narrow yellow pods. Small knoblike nodules found on the roots can be made into a healing potion, helpful for major head and neck scars.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Tarnas.
Name: Tarweed
Description: A strong-smelling, resinous plant with yellow, rayed flower heads
Found In: Old Ta'Faendryl
Other Names: None.
Name: Teaberry (bright red)
Description: Also known as wintergreen. A creeping shrub bearing white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield a fragrant oil. Try to forage for the tasty berries.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Thyme
Description: One of several aromatic herbs, the low shrubs have small, white to lilac flowers grouped in headlike clusters.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Tkaro
Description: When the root of the tkaro plant is eaten it has the effect of silencing the inner voices you hear in your head (amunet and Voln) for several minutes. One distinctive characteristic is its brilliant golden foliage, which makes it easy to find in a field or along a path, the root itself is a dark burgundy color, similar to a beet, but much tastier. Can be foraged in the wild.
Found In: River's Rest, Icemule Trace
Other Names: None.
Name: Tomato
Description: A widely cultivated plant having edible, fleshy, and usually red fruit. Comes in several varieties and sizes from cherry to larger than a giantkin's hand. Rare versions produce yellow, orange, green blackish, and striped fruits. Delicious fresh, raw, especially when sliced and slightly salted. Used in cooking to create sauces. Paste made from the fruit can also serve as a thickener.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Torban
Description: Torban leaf is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, the leaves of the Torban tree can treat minor nervous system defects, such as slurred speech. Growing in mild climates, the tree is not difficult to find, but care must be exercised in selecting the leaves in the proper stage of growth, or they will be useless, save for tea-making.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Terbas.
Name: Tundra Grass
Description: See Grasses.
Name: Turnip
Description: A widely cultivated plant of the mustard family, having a large fleshy edible yellow or white root. Great when baked with a little butter.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Valerian
Description: A plant widely cultivated for its small, fragrant, white to pink or lavender flowers and for use in medicine. The root is good for teas, potions and is an aid for nerve and sleeping disorders.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Water chestnut
Description: A floating aquatic plant bearing four-pronged nutlike fruit and grown as a pond or aquarium ornamental. The fruit, often called a corm or tuber, can be used in cooking. Foraged often in the wild.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle, River's Rest, Solhaven, Ta'Vaalor
Other Names: None.
Name: Wingstem
Description: A member of the legume family. Pairs of pale green wing-shaped leaves offset small lavender flowers with yellow centers. The small knoblike nodules found on the roots can be made into a healing potion, good for major eye and torso scars.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Wekwek.
Name: Wintergreen
Description: Also known as teaberry. A creeping shrub bearing white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield a fragrant oil
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Wolifrew lichen DescriItion: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Wormwood
Description: Any of several aromatic plants yielding a bitter extract used in making absinthe and in flavoring certain wines.
Found In: River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Woth flower
Description: An exceedingly beautiful flower that, when in full bloom, has a blue throat surrounded by ruffled violet petals. Woth flower is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, woth flower can heal serious defects of the nervous system, such as involuntary spasms or constant convulsions. Woth flower grows best in hot, humid, dark climates, and it is believed to be native to rain forests.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Yuth.
Name: Wyrmwood
Description: A small, reddish-brown barked tree with gnarled branches. Insects love the sweet sap and often bore tiny holes along the trunk. Yellow leaves appear at spring and die off at first frost, after producing brackish green flowers. The poisonous (to people) bark can be brewed in tiny quantities as a tea, healing torso scars and eye wounds. Can also be made into a potion.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Yabathilium
Description: When consumed, yabathilium fruit has astonishing powers to restore blood and strength to those who have been injured. The fruit of the tree is small, greenish, and unfortunately, extremely bitter. Yabathilium trees grow along beaches and saltwater coastlines, and may be foraged in the wild.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Yavethalion.
Vines and Parasitics
Name: Dirge-vaon vines
Description: An insectivorous plant of giant proportions, the dirge-vaon vine senses when people are nearby and creeps along the ground in their direction. Most manage to avoid contact with the poisonous plant, but the unlikely ones who are tripped by the vine might suffer contact with the tiny teeth-like needles that can inject a fiery poison. Fortunately, most people are too large to be considered a meal, as the spiny, bi-fold leaves cannot consume flesh.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Flaeshorn
Description: Pale green foliage makes this vine an excellent creeper, and the golden berries make an excellent wine.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Grapes
Description: Fleshy, smooth-skinned, clusters of purple, red, or green fruit, eaten raw or dried as a raisin and widely used in winemaking. Grows on a woody shrub that can be trained, and features large leaves that offer shade to the fruit. The leaves can be pickled and eaten while the younger branches can be made into wreaths and baskets.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Honeysuckle
Description: See Flowers.
Name: Huckleberry
Description: The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of shrubs nearly related to the blueberry, and formerly confused with them.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Ivy
Description: A common name given to any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants with palmately lobed leaves, root-bearing young stems, and small green flowers grouped in umbels.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Jasmine
Description: See Flowers.
Name: Loganberry
Description: A trailing, prickly plant cultivated for its acid, edible fruit.
Found In: Icemule Trace
Other Names: None.
Name: Marillis
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Mistletoe
Description: A parasitic shrub with leathery evergreen leaves and waxy white berries. Often collected and dangled during solstice, as an en ticement to kissing.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Pumpkin
Description: A long, trailing vine that produces a large pulpy round fruit with a thick, orange-yellow rind and numerous seeds. Often carved with faces, or baked in a variety of ways, mostly sweets. The seeds are also excellent roasted.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Raspberry
Description: A bramble that produces thimble-shaped fruit in shades of black, red and white.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Trumpetvine
Description: A deciduous woody vine having opposite compound leaves and trumpet-shaped reddish-orange flowers. Favored for gardens and climbing to create a dramatic display or privacy screen. A favorite for hummingbirds.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Vinca
Description: A low, creeping evergreen plants that includes the periwinkle. Some varieties have variated white and green leaves, instead of dark, glossy green.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Trees
Name: Acacia
Description: The acacia is a relative of the pea family, appearing often as spiny trees or shrubs having alternate, bipinnately compound leaves with flattened leafstalks and spiky heads of small flowers. The slightly spicy fragrance and pale yellow blooms make branches of the acacia desirable for arrangements.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Alder (speckled)
Description: The alder is actually a large shrub, a group of stout stems from a common root. These can grow to quite a height, however, and can occasionally produce a small tree with a trunk as much as a foot in diameter and 30-40 feet high. It has wrinkled leaves broadly ovate in shape and irregularly toothed. It has purple and yellow male catkins about three inches long, and it bears small cones with round-winged seeds that persist on the tree all winter. Alders flourish over a broad range, from the mountainous areas south of Wehnimer's Landing, extending east and south. The alder has little value as a timber, but is a good choice of kindling and firewood. It is believed that the alder has been used as a good treatment for burns and inflamed wounds. The dried bark was also apparently used to improve circulation and staunch hemorrhage.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Aloeas
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Apple
Description: A spreading tree that bears white or pale pink, fragrant flowers in the spring, which mature into fruits. A crisp and sweet treat, sometimes with a tart bite to it. A favorite for pies and some cakes or tarts. The fermenting fruit can also be used for ciders and brewed beverages.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Ash
Description: The ash is a tough, elastic hardwood. It carries keys or winged fruits. The tree has deeply penetrating roots and sours the soil, making it difficult for other vegetation to grow beneath it. Southern specimens of the tree occasionally grow to heroic dimensions, as much as a hundred and seventy-five feet tall and five feet in diameter. It has wide spreading branches and bears compound leaves, usually with seven leaflets, clustered toward the branch ends. It is an ideal choice for use in making weaponry, as well as handles for tools and furniture. The ash comes in two varieties, the more common white ash and the black ash, the latter more often found in remote southern forests. Unlike the white ash, the black ash prefers wetlands, stream borders, and cool swamplands. It is a tall, slender tree, its branches reaching upward, rather than outward as does the white ash.
The wood of the black ash can be split quite easily, into thin, tough splints, ideal for the making of baskets. At certain stages of pounding, the layers of the black ash begin to separate at the annual growth rings. The black ash resembles the white ash except that it is taller and more slender. Its compound leaves, of a distinctly dark shade of green have more leaflets than the white ash, as many as eleven.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Aspen (quaking)
Description: Trees with leaves attached by flattened leafstalks so that they flutter readily in the wind. Quaking aspengets its name because this particular aspect, causing the leaves to shiver with even the slightest breeze. Turns a bright yellow during autumn.
Found In: Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Banana
Description: Any of several treelike shrubs having a terminal crown of large, entire leaves and a hanging cluster of fruits. The yellow, sickle-shaped fruits are very tasty.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Beech (silver)
Description: A deciduous tree with smooth grey bark, alternate simple leaves, and three-angled nuts enclosed in prickly burs. The nuts will often drop to the ground as the burs split, and can be foraged for a tasty treat.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace, Pinefar/Aenatumgana, Ta'Illistim, Ta'Valor
Other Names: None.
Name: Bergamot
Description: A small tree commercially grown chiefly for its sour citrus fruits, the rinds of which yield an aromatic oil. The oil is often used in teas, perfumes, and incense.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Birch
Description: Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers.
Found In: River's Rest, Zul Logothen
Other Names: None.
Name: Black Willow
Description: One of the many species of willows found across Elanthia, the black willow is so-named for its dark, green-black foliage and ebony wood. As with most of the willows, the black willow plays an important role in nature by stabilizing the banks of streams and rivers with its fast-spreading and branching root system. Male and female blossoms on the willows are borne on separate trees. Insects are the most industrious of the pollinators, but the pollen is very fine and readily windborne. The black willow grows along streams and ponds, anywhere there is damp soil. Curiously, many streambed willow bushes are also black willows, since the species takes either tree or bush form.
As a tree, it may have a trunk diameter of six feet and its stems may rise as high as 150 feet. Even in the tree form, it usually grows with several main trunks rising from the same root system, as though it had begun at ground level. Black willow is occasionally used for lumber, primarily in the construction of inexpensive shields and also shipping cases in sea-trading areas. It doesn't make good firewood, however, burning quickly and without much heat. There is some evidence that would suggest that the pollen can be used for medicinal purposes.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Canver
Description: The supple canver trees often bend to drape, much like willows, and when planted opposite each other, their crowns can meet and en tertwine in a lush green arch over the street. Clumps of pink-throated white flowers gaze cheerfully down from among the branches.
Found In: Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle
Other Names: None.
Name: Cedar
Description: An evergreen conifer with stiff needles on short shoots and large erect seed cones with broad deciduous scales. Cedar wood is noted for its pleasant, pervasive aroma, sometimes used to line chests and cupboards, or pressed into incense.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Cherry
Description: Any of several trees or shrubs native chiefly to temperate regions and having pink or white flowers and small juicy drupes.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Cottonwood
Description: Any of several trees that have triangular leaves and a tuft of cottony hairs on the seeds. Likes to grow along the banks of fresh water sources.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Dogwood
Description: A tree bearing small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Ebonwood
Description: A hardwood tree with very black heartwood.
Found In: ML
Other Names: None.
Name: Elanthia Ironwood
Description: When ironwood comes to blossom, bees converge on them, making the trees loud as well as fragrant; and in consequence, the honeycombs are full of some of the sweetest honey found in the Lands. The name ironwood refers to the core of the tree; however, the tough inner bark is of a valuable nature as well, having long been used in making cordage and nets. Ironwood is heavy and strong, making it an ideal wood for any weapon that values rock-hard strength, at the expense of added weight. Aside from the hard nature of its wood, the most notable thing about the ironwood is its flower and fruit. The flowers, small and blood red in color, are full of nectar. They grow on a pendant stem that springs from the center of a leaflike wing.
That wing, long and slender and a lighter green than the tree's true leaves, eventually provides a glider for the seed, and thus are new groves of ironwood started. The large, oval leaves vary from a pale green in the north, to a deeper shade in southern forests. While the ironwood is valued for its products, the complicated business of lumbering it makes it a poor choice when looking for firewood.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Elm
Description: Any of various deciduous trees characteristically having arching or curving branches and serrate leaves with asymmetrical bases. Elms are widely planted as shade trees.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Fel
Description: The fel is not really a beautiful tree. It has a sturdy cen tral stalk or trunk, but it tends to be a broad tree. Its leaves are long and have fifteen or more leaflets opposite each other. Its fruits are black, rough-coated nuts enclosed in thick, yellowish-brown husks rich in a very deep black dye. The meat of the nuts is rich, oily, and distinctly flavored. The outer hulls were used by early bands of halflings as dyestuff for wool used to knit stockings. The fel is mostly prized for its hardwood, which is peeled for surfacing and used in all sorts of fine wood-crafting. The lumber is a unique dark color, and only ebony wood possesses a deeper shade of black.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Dir.
Name: Fig
Description: An often small, gnarl-branched tree with large, lobed leaves and numerous sweet, pear-shaped, tiny seedlike fruits. A favorite for jams, tarts, cookies and other baked goods, as well as a special treat for birds and raccoons.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Fir
Description: Any of various evergreen trees having single flattened needles and erect cones with deciduous scales.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Icemule Trace, Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Ginkgo
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Haphip
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Haon
Description: Haons are particularly handsome trees with their big, smooth boles, smoky-grey bark, wide-spreading branches, and almost luminous leaves. Under the best conditions, they grow a hundred feet tall and have a widely rounded crown. At the base of the sturdy trunk, a haon tends to reach out with big, half-exposed roots for a shallow roothold. It is the bark and the leaves that identify a haon at first sight. The bark almost glows, is at times purplish-grey, and even on old trees, is not rough. The leaves are elliptical, short-stemmed, and prominently veined. Each vein ends in a marginal tooth. It is the texture of the leaves that makes them unique, almost translucent. In summer, the sun shines through them, but not the heat, making them an ideal shade tree. Haon nuts, something like miniature chestnuts, are borne in a spiny bur. They are prized for animal fodder and are rumored to have healing properties.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: Hoen.
Name: Hawthorn
Description: Usually thorny trees or shrubs with clusters of white or pinkish flowers and reddish fruits containing a few one-seeded nutlets. Often used during rituals or ceremonies of a magical nature.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Hazel
Description: The hazel produces a flexible wood, and is a shrub sometimes eight feet high, common in fencerows and thickety growth at the edge of stands of timber. Its leaves are narrowly pointed or heart-shaped, rough above, pale below, and three to five inches long. The hazel blooms in early spring. The hazel is mostly known for its fruit, a small, chestnut-brown nut, almost perfectly spherical enclosed in a pair of broad, leafy, toothed bracts with many bristles at the base. The nutmeat is sweet.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Ironwood
Description: See Elanthia Ironwood, above.
Name: Lemon
Description: A spiny, evergreen tree widely cultivated for its yellow, egg-shaped fruit. Bears very fragrant spiky, white blossoms. The fruit is popular for cooking and drinks.
Found In: River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Lime
Description: A spiny evergreen shrub or tree with leathery leaves, fragrant white flowers, and edible fruit often used in drinks and cooking.
Found In: River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Linden
Description: In southern forests, the linden tree often provides a carpet of fragrant, golden flowers on the forest floor during spring. The flowers are five-petaled and hang in loose clusters ten to fourteen inches long. They attract swarms of bees, which make a particularly delicious honey from their nectar. The trees grow like weeds, to a height of sixty feet, and are popular for shelterbelts and as ornamentals, though their feathery foliage offers little shade. The wood of the linden is light in hue, soft and supple, making it a good candidate for bows and other products where strength and flexibility are prerequisites. The beanlike seeds in its flattened, four-inch-long pods are said to have medicinal properties.
Found In: River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Magnolia
Description: The magnolia tree typically prefers a southern temperate location with cool winters. Both tall and wide in its growth, magnolias make a magnificent shade tree, with its long evergreen leaves appearing a lustrous dark green when viewed from above, and grey or brown when viewed underneath. The flowers are often huge, creamy white, and beautifully fragrant, although some have come in shades of rose, yellow, and purple.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle
Other Names: None.
Name: Maple
Description: Any of numerous deciduous trees or shrubs of the temperate zone, having opposite, usually palmate leaves and long-winged fruits borne in pairs. Some varieties of the tree yield a sap that can be boiled into a tasty syrup, used for candies.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Mahogany
Description: A majestic looking, canopy tree with lustrous dark red tones that produces a sought-after wood, famous for its reddish-yellow to reddish-brown tones. Mahogany is an old growth tree that mainly grows in subtropical climates. Its glossy jade green leaves make the young offshoots a novel miniature houseplant. When in bloom, small white flowers give way to showy fruit capsules.
Found In: River's Rest, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle
Other Names: None.
Name: Maoral
Description: The huge, tropical maoral is the only truly deciduous conifer. It sheds all its needles every autumn. The needles are only about an inch long. In spring they are a bright golden -yellow-green in summer a warm blue-green darker than the modwirs, and rich golden tan in the autumn. In spring, just before the new needles appear, the maorals are aglow with blossoms, the male flowers a pure shade of white, the females bright red with green tips, all of them very small.
The female flowers mature into tiny cones, no more than three-quarters of an inch long, which stay on the tree all winter, shedding seeds. Maoral grows very tall and thin, sometimes as much as two hundred feet high with a trunk diameter of six feet. The tree is of slow growth, taking as long as two hundred and fifty years to reach a trunk diameter of twenty inches. Maorals prefer damp soil and often grow at the edges of swamps, but can sometimes be found well up on hillsides as long as the climate is moderate. They are a tropical tree. Maoral wood is heavy and durable, and of a distinct reddish color. Maoral wood tends to be expensive, due the to slow growth of the tree. The Sylvans have been known to use maoral rootlets to sew haon bark together and make light, airy dwellings. The maoral is also said to have medicinal values, the sap having long been used to make potions that heal wounds and cure aches.
Found In: Solhaven, River's Rest, Kharam Dzu
Other Names: None.
Name: Mistwood
Description: Related to Elanthia Ironwood, this irregularly-shaped shrub or small tree is recognizable by its clusters of silvery-green leaves. Mistwood is hardy and grows in many climates but is fairly uncommon. Its hard wood is too gnarled and irregularly shaped to be of use in making weapons, but is prized for decorative uses for the variations of pearly grey colors in the finished wood, that lend it its name.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Modwir
Description: The coastal modwir is a strikingly beautiful tree. Its dominant number is five, most easily seen when the tree is young. Its long, warm green needles come in bundles of five. Modwir needles have a soft, almost fuzzy appearance from a distance, with foliage bunched toward the ends of twigs so that the overall texture might best be described as clumpy. It tends to send out five branches a year in a whorl around its central stem.
The upper branches tend to arch strongly upward, spaced widely enough apart on older trees so that each branch can be distinguished from a distance. Its cones are five or six inches long, narrowly cylindrical and chocolate brown in color. They remain closed and green the first year, ripen turn brown, relax their scales and release seeds the second year. The modwir is relatively swift of growth. A seedling will reach a height of a hundred feet and a trunk diameter of thirty to fifty inches in thirty years. The mature bark is scaly grey with irregular but generally vertical grooves, often marked with white streaks of gum or resin from broken branches. The wood has long been prized for ship-building.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: Windak.
Name: Monir (shingle)
Description: One of the large monir genus, the shingle monir is a handsome tree, towering to heights of 80 feet and more. The rough and furrowed bark and broad, rounded crown are notable monir characteristics, but the leaves are lance-shaped instead of the more prevalent round-lobed or deeply-toothed monir leaves. The name "shingle monir" refers to the wide of use of this tree's light brown wood in shingle-making. Hardly a cabin or rustic homestead in the wild lands to the east was built without being finished off with thin slabs of shingle monir. Shingle monir thrives in both dry upland and moist riverbank environments. Its acorns are small, about half an inch long and provide important fuel for wildlife.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Miran.
The white monir's acorns, maturing the first year, are choice food for squirrels and birds. When they fall and come into contact with the soil, they soon germinate and thrust roots into the ground before hard frost. Those acorns can be eaten raw, but are sweeter if they are boiled or roasted first.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Oak
Description: In the essential forest, the oak is the only tree to rival the monir in stature and beauty. The word "door" comes from an ancient dialect wherein "duir" was the word for solidity, protection and the oak tree. The oak stands majestically with great, reaching branches and an even more impressive root system. The oak's growth is slow but sure, and the trees survive for decades and even sometimes centuries. Oaks produce a great quantity of acorns and in autumn, the foliage turns a rich red. The leaves tend to cling to the branches all winter. The timber of the oak tree has many uses, everything from building dwellings to barrels in which wine and beer is aged.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Olive
Description: An evergreen tree having fragrant white flowers, usually lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible drupes. When the fruits are cured or brined, they make a nice snack.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Orange
Description: An evergreen tree widely cultivated in warm regions, and having fragrant white flowers and round fruit with a yellowish or reddish rind and a sectioned, pulpy interior. The fruit can be juiced and used in any number of ways. Considered a healthy source of vitamins.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Peach
Description: A small tree widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, bearing pink flowers and fuzzy-coated, edible fruit. Often sliced and put in pies or tarts, or eaten fresh off the tree.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Pear
Description: A widely cultivated tree in the rose family, having glossy leaves, white flowers grouped in a corymb, and edible fruit. Also popular for pies and tarts, as well as eaten fresh.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Pecan
Description: A deciduous tree having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Pine
Description: Various evergreen trees having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody, seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar. Many of the cones bear edible fruits called pinenuts, which can often be foraged when the cones have fallen to the ground. You might even be lucky enough to find a cone or needles in your search.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Pine (bristlecone)
Description: See Pine, above.
Found In: Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Plum
Description: Any of several shrubs or small trees bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single hard-shelled stone that encloses the seed.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Rosewood
Description: A tropical/semitropical leguminous tree with a hard reddish wood with a strongly defined grain. Often used in homes, decoratively.
Found In: TE
Other Names: None.
Name: Spinewood
Description: Named for the small, round, sectioned trunks that resemble a spine, these bent, low, shrubby trees love a damp environment. Found growing along the banks of creeks and rivers, and often right down to the water, it maintains lush foliage most of the year. The spring offers a profusion of short-lived, pale pink flowers that appear shortly after the first warm spell, heralding the end of winter.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Spruce (blue)
Description: Any of various coniferous evergreen trees with needlelike foliage, drooping cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp. The blue spruce is called such due to the frosted blue hue of the needles.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Sycamore
Description: A deciduous tree having palmately lobed leaves, ball-like, nodding, hairy fruit clusters, and bark that flakes off in large colorful patches.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Tanik
Description: The blue tanik is thought to have originally come from the legendary Great Forest. Its limbs curve downward, then up, and its twigs hang pendulously. The needles curve upward, and grow to a length of 8 to 10 inches. The cones are large and in spring, shed powdery, yellow pollen literally by the cupful. Normally the tree grows to heights close to a hundred feet, however, there are legends that tell of taniks reaching gargantuan sizes within the great unexplored southern forests. The tanik is prized in the craft of papermaking. The crisp, long-lasting parchment produced from this conifer are unequalled.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: Tonak.
Name: Torban
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Walnut
Description: A deciduous tree featuring pinnately compound leaves and a round, sticky outer fruit wall that encloses a nutlike stone with an edible seed.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Willow
Description: A graceful tree with long branches and distinctive leaves composed of many small leaflets attached to an extremely long stem. Often found along fresh source waterways and in cultivated park-like settings. A good shade tree.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Witchwood
Description: A highly magical wood taken from a twisted bush that grows only in graveyards. Only small weapons are likely to be made from it, and its most common use is in wands and staves. It is most potent when used for spells of subtle destruction and is often cursed.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Wyrmwood
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Yabathilium
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Yew
Description: It is said, the easiest place to find the yew tree is within the ancient cemeteries. In truth, any particular yew may well be far older than the cemetery that surrounds it. Yews have a tremendous capacity for longevity. Its branches grow down into the ground to form new stems, which grow to become trunks of separate but linked growth. In time, the central trunk becomes old and the insides decay, but a new tree grows within the spongy mass of the old, and eventually, cannot be distinguished from the original. It is from this that the yew has come to symbolize great age, rebirth and reincarnation. The yew produces a close-grained, elastic wood that is similar to maple.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Acantha
Description: Noted for its herbal properties when the leaves are eaten, acantha restores a portion of blood. Acantha can be found in climates ranging from near desert to moist ocean beaches. The plant features elongated light green leaves.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven, Zul Logoth, Ta'Illistim, Ta'Vaalor
Other Names: Akbutege.
Name: Agave
Description: Cactus plants having spiny-margined leaves and flowers in tall spreading panicles, some cultivated for their fiber or sap, or for ornament. Agave spreads vegetatively by stoloniferous shoots, which are soft enough to be handled or jostled. After a decade and a half of growth, depending on the annual rainfall, the plant has stored sufficient reserves in its starchy core to flower. This involves production of a flower stalk almost twice as tall as a giantkin. After flowering and production of seed, the plant dies. The starchy core can be baked and served, as a foodstuff, or the sap of the flower stalk can be fermented to produce an alcoholic beverage. The fibers from the leaves can be woven into mats, rope, and baskets.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Aloeas
Description: Moss green leaves with long stems, similar in shape to the oak leaf, routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may also be foraged wild. The small tree displays the ability to turn towards the movements of the sun (this is known as heliotropism), and might be related to the heliotrope. When the stems are consumed, bleeding from the head or neck staunches, both internal and external, and of heal bruising of the brain. Aloeas grows in colder, wet areas, such as along riverbanks.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Arfandas.
Name: Ambrominas
Description: Ambrominas bushes have oval leaves of a dark green hue, routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, it has the property of healing minor cuts, bruises, and scrapes. It grows in grasslands and hilly areas.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Arnuminas.
Name: Angelica
Description: The edible root, leaves, and stalks are popular for baking and liqueurs. Also used in potions to replace missing limbs. Commercially found in Pinefar, grown in climates that afford rich soils with a sufficient rainfall to avoid drought. Short-lived, once the plant flowers, it goes to seed.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Anise
Description: A bulbous plant with feathery foliage that flowers and goes to seed. Licorice flavor, often used in baking, candy, or liqueur. Can be boiled like a vegetable.
Found In: Often found at special celebrations.
Other Names: None.
Name: Asparagus
Description: Fern-like plant that loves a moist habitat, also a spring vegetable. Stalks are edible when young and before they flower.
Found In: Often found at special celebrations.
Other Names: None.
Description: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Bolmara Description: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Brostheras Description: See Grasses.
Name: Bulrush
Description: Aquatic or wetland herbs having grasslike leaves and usually clusters of small, often brown spikelets. Similar to cattails and papyrus.
Found In: Old Ta'Faendryl
Other Names: None.
Name: Bur-Clover
Description: This prostrate, spreading plant, related to the alfalfa/sweet clover family, hugs the ground. Its creeping stems may vary in length from a few inches to several feet. Leaflets are very similar to clover, but occasionally have whitish and dark red spots across the surface. Stems are round and smooth, and the yellow-orange flowers gather in very loose clusters. Seed pods appear spirally twisted and are covered with hooked spines, or barbs. The roots of the but-clover plant can be finely ground into a powder and combined with other ingredients to make a healing potion, helpful for missing eyes.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Baldakur.
Name: Burdock
Description: Weedy plants bearing pink or purplish flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts and forming a bur in fruit. The edible young stalks that emerge from the roots, in Spring, are tasty raw or when sautied. Try your hand at gathering one, and test this taste treat.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace, Pinefar/Aenatumgana, Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Cactacae
Description: Routinely sold for its medicinal properties, may also be foraged wild. When consumed, catacae spine has the useful property of removing unsightly scars from arms, hands, and legs. Has sharp long brown thorns. Catacae cactus grows in desert or near-desert conditions.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Dagmather.
Name: Cactus
Description: Succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions, often bearing variously colored, showy flowers. If you're very careful, you can forage around the spines and come away with a flower.
Found In: All except Icemule Trace and Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Cactus (strigae)
Description: The flesh of the strigae cactus possesses properties akin to the properties of cuctucae berries, but the spines are sufficiently sharp that acquiring the flesh may do as much harm as the herb can heal. Flat and paddle-shaped, the cactus plants supposedly grow abundantly in desert areas.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace
Other Names: Gariig.
Name: Calamia Fruit
Description: The fruit of the calamia plant is large and a light red color close to pink. Routinely sold for its medicinal properties and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, calamia fruit can restore a mangled limb to its proper shape and form. The properties of calamia are greatest when the fruit has been dried, but few bother to do so, seeing as the fruit is amazingly effective when fresh. Calamia grows in very warm, moist climates.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Curfalaka.
Name: Carrot (common)
Description: Vegetable with an edible orange root and leafy green stalks.
Found In: Often found at special celebrations.
Other Names: None.
Name: Carrot (wild)
Description: Brackets of tiny white flowers clustered on stalks found by roadsides and in meadows, a favorite plant for ladybugs.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Cattails
Description: Cattails are the most familiar of all wetland plants. Their swaying brown flower clusters can be seen at the edges of ponds, rivers, lakes, or just about any place where there is shallow, standing water for at least part of the year. The common cattail can grow up to nine feet in height. Probably the most distinctive thing about the cattails are their flowers, as each possesses thousands of tiny brown flowers all tightly compressed into a compact mass on the top of their stems. During late summer and early autumn, these structures will begin to come apart, releasing their seeds into the wind as they do so.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Chicory
Description: A perennial herb, chicory has rayed flower heads with blue florets. Often the root is ground and used for a coffee substitute, or as an adulterant. The leaves of the chicory plant can be used in salads, despite the fact that it's bitter.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Cinquefoil
Description: Common cinquefoil stems are hairy and grow somewhat prostrate along the ground. The more ornamental varieties can rise up and grow in clumps or tufts, reaching two foot lengths, or grow nearly prostrate along the ground. The leaves are palmately divided into five leaflets, similar to strawberry leaves, coarsely toothed leaflets that have pale undersides. Common cinquefoil flowers are yellow, one per stem and fairly conspicuous.
Found In: Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Corn
Description: Corn is a grain crop that grows on a stalk and produces an "ear." Grain-type corn is not harvested fresh, it is allowed to dry on the stalk and then is harvested with a thresher. This type of corn is used primarily in animal feed or in cereal products.
Found In: River's Rest, Solhaven, Ta'Illistim
Other Names: None.
Name: Cothinar
Description: Cothinar flowers may be foraged wild. When consumed, cothinar flowers share the properties of acantha leaves, save in that they are a bit more powerful. Cothinar grows in colder, barren areas, and thrives in the winter months.
Found In: All except Old Ta'Faendryl Other Name:Cusamar.
Name: Cuctucae
Description: When consumed, cuctucae berries shares the properties of acantha, but without the pause for digestion and healing required by acantha. Cuctucae bushes are most readily found in higher elevations and cooler climates, and the small, dusky blue berries may be foraged wild.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace
Other Names: Dugmuthur.
Name: Daggit
Description: A member of the carrot family, the daggit plant produces a white root with a scarlet blush near the base where it meets the foliage. Red-stemmed green-leafed foliage can be used to create a wine-hued dye. The edible roots can be mashed and blended to make a potion that replaces missing eyes.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Eggplant
Description: Eggplant belongs to the family that also includes tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes. Comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from round and white, to elongated, pear-shaped and deep purple.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Ephlox moss
Description: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Feverfew
Description: These single, white and yellow, daisy-like flowers grow den sely on upright bushes. The dry leaf, flower and/or seed may be made into tea or tincture, providing a valuable tonic for healing head and neck wounds.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Fig (creeping)
Description: This aggressive, beautiful evergreen vine is a relative of the edible fig, but bears little resemblance to its close cousin. Creeping fig is an enthusiastic climber able to scramble up vertical surfaces when aided and trained. This vine covers surfaces with a tracery of fine stems that are densely covered with small heart-shaped leaves held closely to the surface, creating a mat of foliage. Pale green in color, the fig fruits are very small.
Found In: Ta'Illistim
Other Names: None.
Name: Ginger
Description: The large, fleshy rhizome of the plant has a characteristic staghorn-like appearance. Dried ginger is usually sold in form of an off-white to very light brown powder. Can be used in cooking and baking, as well as candies and teas or other beverages.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Ginkgo
Description: Sometimes called a living fossil, the Ginkgo is one of the oldest living deciduous tree species. Distinctive bi-lobed and fanlike leaves, which turn a beautiful golden yellow in autumn. Produces an edible nut, which needs to be roasted before brewing in tea. Teas and potions can heal eye and torso wounds.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Gorse
Description: Gorse is a spiny evergreen shrub related to the pea family, and is dense and stiff, forming impenetrable thickets. Its erect angular stems have spreading branches ending in thorns and green leaves that take the form of branching spines. Flowers are yellow and shaped like pea-blossoms, clustered near the ends of the branches. Fruit pods resemble pea pods that burst, expelling the seeds. Gorse has been used for wine.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Haphip
Description: Routinely sold for its medicinal properties, may also be foraged wild. Haphip root has the useful property of removing scarring from the face and neck of those who consume it. The tree is fairly rare, and grows in hot, humid conditions where it receives a great deal of moisture. Only harvesting a small amount of root is recommended, to avoid killing the tree.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Hegheg.
Name: Lettuce
Description: Edible leaves that grow in a bunch around a central core. Varieties of leaf type and color make for interesting salads. Usually eaten raw, often dressed with oil, vinegar, and herbs.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Manroot
Description: All parts of this rapidly growing, often invasive plant are exceedingly bitter. Touch your tongue to a cut root and your jaw will lock. This strong a chemical defense indicates potential medicinal use. Related to the cucumber family, which includes melons and gourds, the manroot is a veritable pharmacoepia. Edible stalks, used in teas and potions, can heal limb scars.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Marillis
Description: The dark red, small berries of the marillis plant have properties similar to acantha, cothinir, and cuctucae. Marillis grows most commonly in colder hills and mountains.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Mirenna.
Name: Mustard
Description: The easily distinguished flowers have four petals arranged diagonally ("cruciform") and alternating with the four sepals. Used to make woad, an important dye source. Most important commercially are the black mustard and white mustard. These yellow-flowered annuals resemble each other and are used more or less similarly. They are cultivated for the seeds, which are ground and used as a condiment, usually mixed to a paste with vinegar or oil, sometimes with spices or with an admixture of starch to reduce the pungency. Mustards are also grown as salad plants and for greens. The white mustard is used in some places as forage for sheep and as green manure. Black mustard seeds are more pungent than the white and yield a yellowish, biting oil that has also been useful in medicine.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Nettle
Description: Nettle plants grow two to three feet tall, bearing dark green leaves with serrated margins, and small flowers covered with tiny hairs on the leaves and stems. When brushed, Nettles can inject an irritant into any skin that comes into contact with the plant. The stinging reaction is caused by the plant hairs injecting a compound containing formic acid, histamine, and other irritants. This stinging activity is lost when the plant is dried or cooked, and the tender tops of young first-growth nettles are especially delicious and nutritious.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Ocotillo
Description: A cactus-like desert shrub with slender naked spiny branches that, after the rainy season, put forth foliage and clusters of red tubular flowers.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Pea
Description: The leaves of the pea plant have three leaflets that are elliptic to lanceolate, green and pubescent above and silvery greyish-green with longer hairs below. The flowers are yellow with red/reddish brown lines or a red outside, borne in terminal racemes. Pods are straight to sickle shaped, glabrous, and glandular. The erect shrub or short-lived perennial legume is often grown as an annual crop.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Pennyroyal
Description: This strongly aromatic herb is a low-growing plant with a slen der, erect, much-branched, somewhat hairy and square stem. The leaves are small, thin, and rather narrow. In summer, close flower clusters appear, consisting of a few pale-bluish flowers. The entire herb has a strong mintlike odor and pungent taste. Their edible stems are used in oils and rubs. Brewed into a tea or potion, it can heal major head and neck wounds.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Peppermint
Description: Green peppermint hearts can be obtained freely in Zephyr Hall.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Pothinir
Description: See Grasses.
Name: Rose-Marrow
Description: A member of the leguminous family. Staggered blackish-green leaves climb tall stalks, nearly hiding scarlet-edged white blossoms that eventually give way to small, rounded seed pods. Small knoblike nodules found on the roots can be made into a healing potion, helpful for minor head and neck wounds.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Rewk.
Name: Rosemary
Description: A decent spice, as well as a fragrant garden plant, with needle-like glossy, dark green leaves and showy petite blue flowers.
Found In: Ta'Illistim
Other Names: None.
Name: Sage (wild)
Description: The sage plant is a member of the herb family, and grows in small rounded clumps of aromatic grayish-green opposite leaves. Great when used in stews and for seasoning meats, mostly fowl. When left to its own, wild sage will grow woody and tall, but its distinctive aroma is still present.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Seaweed (various)
Description: Often edible, sometimes used to make rope or clothing.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle, Solhaven River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Sovyn
Description: Sovyn clove is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. The cloves of which people speak are actually the small, dried flowers of the sovyn bush; without time to dry in the sun, their healing powers are lost. Sovyn clove, when consumed, may miraculously restore an entire missing limb to a person, so long as the limb has not been recently severed.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Siran.
Name: Spearmint
Description: May be foraged in several places in the vicinity of Wehnimer's Landing. Eating spearmint leaves is good for the breath and is a remarkable digestive aid.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Strawberry
Description: A low-growing plant with white flowers and an aggregate fruit that consists of a red fleshy edible receptacle and numerous seedlike fruitlets.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven, Icemule Trace (probably hothouse)en
Other Names: None.
Name: Strawberry (wild)
Description: Bears smaller fruit than its cultivated cousin, but much more flavorful. Some diligent foraging might yield this sweet treasure.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Sweetfern
Description: An aromatic deciduous shrub having narrow, deeply lobed, fernlike leaves and minute flowers grouped in catkinlike heads. Edible stalks can be brewed into teas and potions that heal limb wounds.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Talneo
Description: A member of the leguminous family. Long, tapered yellow-green leaves emerge from a vine-like stalk, the tendrils of which can be trained to climb. Draping cascades of periwinkle blue flowers eventually turn to see, producing narrow yellow pods. Small knoblike nodules found on the roots can be made into a healing potion, helpful for major head and neck scars.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Tarnas.
Name: Tarweed
Description: A strong-smelling, resinous plant with yellow, rayed flower heads
Found In: Old Ta'Faendryl
Other Names: None.
Name: Teaberry (bright red)
Description: Also known as wintergreen. A creeping shrub bearing white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield a fragrant oil. Try to forage for the tasty berries.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Thyme
Description: One of several aromatic herbs, the low shrubs have small, white to lilac flowers grouped in headlike clusters.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Tkaro
Description: When the root of the tkaro plant is eaten it has the effect of silencing the inner voices you hear in your head (amunet and Voln) for several minutes. One distinctive characteristic is its brilliant golden foliage, which makes it easy to find in a field or along a path, the root itself is a dark burgundy color, similar to a beet, but much tastier. Can be foraged in the wild.
Found In: River's Rest, Icemule Trace
Other Names: None.
Name: Tomato
Description: A widely cultivated plant having edible, fleshy, and usually red fruit. Comes in several varieties and sizes from cherry to larger than a giantkin's hand. Rare versions produce yellow, orange, green blackish, and striped fruits. Delicious fresh, raw, especially when sliced and slightly salted. Used in cooking to create sauces. Paste made from the fruit can also serve as a thickener.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Torban
Description: Torban leaf is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, the leaves of the Torban tree can treat minor nervous system defects, such as slurred speech. Growing in mild climates, the tree is not difficult to find, but care must be exercised in selecting the leaves in the proper stage of growth, or they will be useless, save for tea-making.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Terbas.
Name: Tundra Grass
Description: See Grasses.
Name: Turnip
Description: A widely cultivated plant of the mustard family, having a large fleshy edible yellow or white root. Great when baked with a little butter.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Valerian
Description: A plant widely cultivated for its small, fragrant, white to pink or lavender flowers and for use in medicine. The root is good for teas, potions and is an aid for nerve and sleeping disorders.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Water chestnut
Description: A floating aquatic plant bearing four-pronged nutlike fruit and grown as a pond or aquarium ornamental. The fruit, often called a corm or tuber, can be used in cooking. Foraged often in the wild.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle, River's Rest, Solhaven, Ta'Vaalor
Other Names: None.
Name: Wingstem
Description: A member of the legume family. Pairs of pale green wing-shaped leaves offset small lavender flowers with yellow centers. The small knoblike nodules found on the roots can be made into a healing potion, good for major eye and torso scars.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Wekwek.
Name: Wintergreen
Description: Also known as teaberry. A creeping shrub bearing white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield a fragrant oil
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Wolifrew lichen DescriItion: See Lichens, Moss, and Fungi.
Name: Wormwood
Description: Any of several aromatic plants yielding a bitter extract used in making absinthe and in flavoring certain wines.
Found In: River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Woth flower
Description: An exceedingly beautiful flower that, when in full bloom, has a blue throat surrounded by ruffled violet petals. Woth flower is routinely sold for its medicinal properties, and may also be foraged wild. When consumed, woth flower can heal serious defects of the nervous system, such as involuntary spasms or constant convulsions. Woth flower grows best in hot, humid, dark climates, and it is believed to be native to rain forests.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Yuth.
Name: Wyrmwood
Description: A small, reddish-brown barked tree with gnarled branches. Insects love the sweet sap and often bore tiny holes along the trunk. Yellow leaves appear at spring and die off at first frost, after producing brackish green flowers. The poisonous (to people) bark can be brewed in tiny quantities as a tea, healing torso scars and eye wounds. Can also be made into a potion.
Found In: Pinefar/Aenatumgana
Other Names: None.
Name: Yabathilium
Description: When consumed, yabathilium fruit has astonishing powers to restore blood and strength to those who have been injured. The fruit of the tree is small, greenish, and unfortunately, extremely bitter. Yabathilium trees grow along beaches and saltwater coastlines, and may be foraged in the wild.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Yavethalion.
Vines and Parasitics
Name: Dirge-vaon vines
Description: An insectivorous plant of giant proportions, the dirge-vaon vine senses when people are nearby and creeps along the ground in their direction. Most manage to avoid contact with the poisonous plant, but the unlikely ones who are tripped by the vine might suffer contact with the tiny teeth-like needles that can inject a fiery poison. Fortunately, most people are too large to be considered a meal, as the spiny, bi-fold leaves cannot consume flesh.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Flaeshorn
Description: Pale green foliage makes this vine an excellent creeper, and the golden berries make an excellent wine.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Grapes
Description: Fleshy, smooth-skinned, clusters of purple, red, or green fruit, eaten raw or dried as a raisin and widely used in winemaking. Grows on a woody shrub that can be trained, and features large leaves that offer shade to the fruit. The leaves can be pickled and eaten while the younger branches can be made into wreaths and baskets.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Honeysuckle
Description: See Flowers.
Name: Huckleberry
Description: The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of shrubs nearly related to the blueberry, and formerly confused with them.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Ivy
Description: A common name given to any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants with palmately lobed leaves, root-bearing young stems, and small green flowers grouped in umbels.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Jasmine
Description: See Flowers.
Name: Loganberry
Description: A trailing, prickly plant cultivated for its acid, edible fruit.
Found In: Icemule Trace
Other Names: None.
Name: Marillis
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Mistletoe
Description: A parasitic shrub with leathery evergreen leaves and waxy white berries. Often collected and dangled during solstice, as an en ticement to kissing.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Pumpkin
Description: A long, trailing vine that produces a large pulpy round fruit with a thick, orange-yellow rind and numerous seeds. Often carved with faces, or baked in a variety of ways, mostly sweets. The seeds are also excellent roasted.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Raspberry
Description: A bramble that produces thimble-shaped fruit in shades of black, red and white.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Trumpetvine
Description: A deciduous woody vine having opposite compound leaves and trumpet-shaped reddish-orange flowers. Favored for gardens and climbing to create a dramatic display or privacy screen. A favorite for hummingbirds.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Vinca
Description: A low, creeping evergreen plants that includes the periwinkle. Some varieties have variated white and green leaves, instead of dark, glossy green.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Trees
Name: Acacia
Description: The acacia is a relative of the pea family, appearing often as spiny trees or shrubs having alternate, bipinnately compound leaves with flattened leafstalks and spiky heads of small flowers. The slightly spicy fragrance and pale yellow blooms make branches of the acacia desirable for arrangements.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Alder (speckled)
Description: The alder is actually a large shrub, a group of stout stems from a common root. These can grow to quite a height, however, and can occasionally produce a small tree with a trunk as much as a foot in diameter and 30-40 feet high. It has wrinkled leaves broadly ovate in shape and irregularly toothed. It has purple and yellow male catkins about three inches long, and it bears small cones with round-winged seeds that persist on the tree all winter. Alders flourish over a broad range, from the mountainous areas south of Wehnimer's Landing, extending east and south. The alder has little value as a timber, but is a good choice of kindling and firewood. It is believed that the alder has been used as a good treatment for burns and inflamed wounds. The dried bark was also apparently used to improve circulation and staunch hemorrhage.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Aloeas
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Apple
Description: A spreading tree that bears white or pale pink, fragrant flowers in the spring, which mature into fruits. A crisp and sweet treat, sometimes with a tart bite to it. A favorite for pies and some cakes or tarts. The fermenting fruit can also be used for ciders and brewed beverages.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Ash
Description: The ash is a tough, elastic hardwood. It carries keys or winged fruits. The tree has deeply penetrating roots and sours the soil, making it difficult for other vegetation to grow beneath it. Southern specimens of the tree occasionally grow to heroic dimensions, as much as a hundred and seventy-five feet tall and five feet in diameter. It has wide spreading branches and bears compound leaves, usually with seven leaflets, clustered toward the branch ends. It is an ideal choice for use in making weaponry, as well as handles for tools and furniture. The ash comes in two varieties, the more common white ash and the black ash, the latter more often found in remote southern forests. Unlike the white ash, the black ash prefers wetlands, stream borders, and cool swamplands. It is a tall, slender tree, its branches reaching upward, rather than outward as does the white ash.
The wood of the black ash can be split quite easily, into thin, tough splints, ideal for the making of baskets. At certain stages of pounding, the layers of the black ash begin to separate at the annual growth rings. The black ash resembles the white ash except that it is taller and more slender. Its compound leaves, of a distinctly dark shade of green have more leaflets than the white ash, as many as eleven.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Aspen (quaking)
Description: Trees with leaves attached by flattened leafstalks so that they flutter readily in the wind. Quaking aspengets its name because this particular aspect, causing the leaves to shiver with even the slightest breeze. Turns a bright yellow during autumn.
Found In: Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Banana
Description: Any of several treelike shrubs having a terminal crown of large, entire leaves and a hanging cluster of fruits. The yellow, sickle-shaped fruits are very tasty.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Beech (silver)
Description: A deciduous tree with smooth grey bark, alternate simple leaves, and three-angled nuts enclosed in prickly burs. The nuts will often drop to the ground as the burs split, and can be foraged for a tasty treat.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Icemule Trace, Pinefar/Aenatumgana, Ta'Illistim, Ta'Valor
Other Names: None.
Name: Bergamot
Description: A small tree commercially grown chiefly for its sour citrus fruits, the rinds of which yield an aromatic oil. The oil is often used in teas, perfumes, and incense.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Birch
Description: Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers.
Found In: River's Rest, Zul Logothen
Other Names: None.
Name: Black Willow
Description: One of the many species of willows found across Elanthia, the black willow is so-named for its dark, green-black foliage and ebony wood. As with most of the willows, the black willow plays an important role in nature by stabilizing the banks of streams and rivers with its fast-spreading and branching root system. Male and female blossoms on the willows are borne on separate trees. Insects are the most industrious of the pollinators, but the pollen is very fine and readily windborne. The black willow grows along streams and ponds, anywhere there is damp soil. Curiously, many streambed willow bushes are also black willows, since the species takes either tree or bush form.
As a tree, it may have a trunk diameter of six feet and its stems may rise as high as 150 feet. Even in the tree form, it usually grows with several main trunks rising from the same root system, as though it had begun at ground level. Black willow is occasionally used for lumber, primarily in the construction of inexpensive shields and also shipping cases in sea-trading areas. It doesn't make good firewood, however, burning quickly and without much heat. There is some evidence that would suggest that the pollen can be used for medicinal purposes.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Canver
Description: The supple canver trees often bend to drape, much like willows, and when planted opposite each other, their crowns can meet and en tertwine in a lush green arch over the street. Clumps of pink-throated white flowers gaze cheerfully down from among the branches.
Found In: Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle
Other Names: None.
Name: Cedar
Description: An evergreen conifer with stiff needles on short shoots and large erect seed cones with broad deciduous scales. Cedar wood is noted for its pleasant, pervasive aroma, sometimes used to line chests and cupboards, or pressed into incense.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Cherry
Description: Any of several trees or shrubs native chiefly to temperate regions and having pink or white flowers and small juicy drupes.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Cottonwood
Description: Any of several trees that have triangular leaves and a tuft of cottony hairs on the seeds. Likes to grow along the banks of fresh water sources.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Dogwood
Description: A tree bearing small greenish flowers surrounded by four large, showy white or pink bracts that resemble petals.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Ebonwood
Description: A hardwood tree with very black heartwood.
Found In: ML
Other Names: None.
Name: Elanthia Ironwood
Description: When ironwood comes to blossom, bees converge on them, making the trees loud as well as fragrant; and in consequence, the honeycombs are full of some of the sweetest honey found in the Lands. The name ironwood refers to the core of the tree; however, the tough inner bark is of a valuable nature as well, having long been used in making cordage and nets. Ironwood is heavy and strong, making it an ideal wood for any weapon that values rock-hard strength, at the expense of added weight. Aside from the hard nature of its wood, the most notable thing about the ironwood is its flower and fruit. The flowers, small and blood red in color, are full of nectar. They grow on a pendant stem that springs from the center of a leaflike wing.
That wing, long and slender and a lighter green than the tree's true leaves, eventually provides a glider for the seed, and thus are new groves of ironwood started. The large, oval leaves vary from a pale green in the north, to a deeper shade in southern forests. While the ironwood is valued for its products, the complicated business of lumbering it makes it a poor choice when looking for firewood.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Elm
Description: Any of various deciduous trees characteristically having arching or curving branches and serrate leaves with asymmetrical bases. Elms are widely planted as shade trees.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Fel
Description: The fel is not really a beautiful tree. It has a sturdy cen tral stalk or trunk, but it tends to be a broad tree. Its leaves are long and have fifteen or more leaflets opposite each other. Its fruits are black, rough-coated nuts enclosed in thick, yellowish-brown husks rich in a very deep black dye. The meat of the nuts is rich, oily, and distinctly flavored. The outer hulls were used by early bands of halflings as dyestuff for wool used to knit stockings. The fel is mostly prized for its hardwood, which is peeled for surfacing and used in all sorts of fine wood-crafting. The lumber is a unique dark color, and only ebony wood possesses a deeper shade of black.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Dir.
Name: Fig
Description: An often small, gnarl-branched tree with large, lobed leaves and numerous sweet, pear-shaped, tiny seedlike fruits. A favorite for jams, tarts, cookies and other baked goods, as well as a special treat for birds and raccoons.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Fir
Description: Any of various evergreen trees having single flattened needles and erect cones with deciduous scales.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Icemule Trace, Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Ginkgo
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Haphip
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Haon
Description: Haons are particularly handsome trees with their big, smooth boles, smoky-grey bark, wide-spreading branches, and almost luminous leaves. Under the best conditions, they grow a hundred feet tall and have a widely rounded crown. At the base of the sturdy trunk, a haon tends to reach out with big, half-exposed roots for a shallow roothold. It is the bark and the leaves that identify a haon at first sight. The bark almost glows, is at times purplish-grey, and even on old trees, is not rough. The leaves are elliptical, short-stemmed, and prominently veined. Each vein ends in a marginal tooth. It is the texture of the leaves that makes them unique, almost translucent. In summer, the sun shines through them, but not the heat, making them an ideal shade tree. Haon nuts, something like miniature chestnuts, are borne in a spiny bur. They are prized for animal fodder and are rumored to have healing properties.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: Hoen.
Name: Hawthorn
Description: Usually thorny trees or shrubs with clusters of white or pinkish flowers and reddish fruits containing a few one-seeded nutlets. Often used during rituals or ceremonies of a magical nature.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Hazel
Description: The hazel produces a flexible wood, and is a shrub sometimes eight feet high, common in fencerows and thickety growth at the edge of stands of timber. Its leaves are narrowly pointed or heart-shaped, rough above, pale below, and three to five inches long. The hazel blooms in early spring. The hazel is mostly known for its fruit, a small, chestnut-brown nut, almost perfectly spherical enclosed in a pair of broad, leafy, toothed bracts with many bristles at the base. The nutmeat is sweet.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Ironwood
Description: See Elanthia Ironwood, above.
Name: Lemon
Description: A spiny, evergreen tree widely cultivated for its yellow, egg-shaped fruit. Bears very fragrant spiky, white blossoms. The fruit is popular for cooking and drinks.
Found In: River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Lime
Description: A spiny evergreen shrub or tree with leathery leaves, fragrant white flowers, and edible fruit often used in drinks and cooking.
Found In: River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Linden
Description: In southern forests, the linden tree often provides a carpet of fragrant, golden flowers on the forest floor during spring. The flowers are five-petaled and hang in loose clusters ten to fourteen inches long. They attract swarms of bees, which make a particularly delicious honey from their nectar. The trees grow like weeds, to a height of sixty feet, and are popular for shelterbelts and as ornamentals, though their feathery foliage offers little shade. The wood of the linden is light in hue, soft and supple, making it a good candidate for bows and other products where strength and flexibility are prerequisites. The beanlike seeds in its flattened, four-inch-long pods are said to have medicinal properties.
Found In: River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Magnolia
Description: The magnolia tree typically prefers a southern temperate location with cool winters. Both tall and wide in its growth, magnolias make a magnificent shade tree, with its long evergreen leaves appearing a lustrous dark green when viewed from above, and grey or brown when viewed underneath. The flowers are often huge, creamy white, and beautifully fragrant, although some have come in shades of rose, yellow, and purple.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle
Other Names: None.
Name: Maple
Description: Any of numerous deciduous trees or shrubs of the temperate zone, having opposite, usually palmate leaves and long-winged fruits borne in pairs. Some varieties of the tree yield a sap that can be boiled into a tasty syrup, used for candies.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Mahogany
Description: A majestic looking, canopy tree with lustrous dark red tones that produces a sought-after wood, famous for its reddish-yellow to reddish-brown tones. Mahogany is an old growth tree that mainly grows in subtropical climates. Its glossy jade green leaves make the young offshoots a novel miniature houseplant. When in bloom, small white flowers give way to showy fruit capsules.
Found In: River's Rest, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle
Other Names: None.
Name: Maoral
Description: The huge, tropical maoral is the only truly deciduous conifer. It sheds all its needles every autumn. The needles are only about an inch long. In spring they are a bright golden -yellow-green in summer a warm blue-green darker than the modwirs, and rich golden tan in the autumn. In spring, just before the new needles appear, the maorals are aglow with blossoms, the male flowers a pure shade of white, the females bright red with green tips, all of them very small.
The female flowers mature into tiny cones, no more than three-quarters of an inch long, which stay on the tree all winter, shedding seeds. Maoral grows very tall and thin, sometimes as much as two hundred feet high with a trunk diameter of six feet. The tree is of slow growth, taking as long as two hundred and fifty years to reach a trunk diameter of twenty inches. Maorals prefer damp soil and often grow at the edges of swamps, but can sometimes be found well up on hillsides as long as the climate is moderate. They are a tropical tree. Maoral wood is heavy and durable, and of a distinct reddish color. Maoral wood tends to be expensive, due the to slow growth of the tree. The Sylvans have been known to use maoral rootlets to sew haon bark together and make light, airy dwellings. The maoral is also said to have medicinal values, the sap having long been used to make potions that heal wounds and cure aches.
Found In: Solhaven, River's Rest, Kharam Dzu
Other Names: None.
Name: Mistwood
Description: Related to Elanthia Ironwood, this irregularly-shaped shrub or small tree is recognizable by its clusters of silvery-green leaves. Mistwood is hardy and grows in many climates but is fairly uncommon. Its hard wood is too gnarled and irregularly shaped to be of use in making weapons, but is prized for decorative uses for the variations of pearly grey colors in the finished wood, that lend it its name.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Kharam Dzu/Teras Isle, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Modwir
Description: The coastal modwir is a strikingly beautiful tree. Its dominant number is five, most easily seen when the tree is young. Its long, warm green needles come in bundles of five. Modwir needles have a soft, almost fuzzy appearance from a distance, with foliage bunched toward the ends of twigs so that the overall texture might best be described as clumpy. It tends to send out five branches a year in a whorl around its central stem.
The upper branches tend to arch strongly upward, spaced widely enough apart on older trees so that each branch can be distinguished from a distance. Its cones are five or six inches long, narrowly cylindrical and chocolate brown in color. They remain closed and green the first year, ripen turn brown, relax their scales and release seeds the second year. The modwir is relatively swift of growth. A seedling will reach a height of a hundred feet and a trunk diameter of thirty to fifty inches in thirty years. The mature bark is scaly grey with irregular but generally vertical grooves, often marked with white streaks of gum or resin from broken branches. The wood has long been prized for ship-building.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: Windak.
Name: Monir (shingle)
Description: One of the large monir genus, the shingle monir is a handsome tree, towering to heights of 80 feet and more. The rough and furrowed bark and broad, rounded crown are notable monir characteristics, but the leaves are lance-shaped instead of the more prevalent round-lobed or deeply-toothed monir leaves. The name "shingle monir" refers to the wide of use of this tree's light brown wood in shingle-making. Hardly a cabin or rustic homestead in the wild lands to the east was built without being finished off with thin slabs of shingle monir. Shingle monir thrives in both dry upland and moist riverbank environments. Its acorns are small, about half an inch long and provide important fuel for wildlife.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: Miran.
The white monir's acorns, maturing the first year, are choice food for squirrels and birds. When they fall and come into contact with the soil, they soon germinate and thrust roots into the ground before hard frost. Those acorns can be eaten raw, but are sweeter if they are boiled or roasted first.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Oak
Description: In the essential forest, the oak is the only tree to rival the monir in stature and beauty. The word "door" comes from an ancient dialect wherein "duir" was the word for solidity, protection and the oak tree. The oak stands majestically with great, reaching branches and an even more impressive root system. The oak's growth is slow but sure, and the trees survive for decades and even sometimes centuries. Oaks produce a great quantity of acorns and in autumn, the foliage turns a rich red. The leaves tend to cling to the branches all winter. The timber of the oak tree has many uses, everything from building dwellings to barrels in which wine and beer is aged.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest, Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Olive
Description: An evergreen tree having fragrant white flowers, usually lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible drupes. When the fruits are cured or brined, they make a nice snack.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Orange
Description: An evergreen tree widely cultivated in warm regions, and having fragrant white flowers and round fruit with a yellowish or reddish rind and a sectioned, pulpy interior. The fruit can be juiced and used in any number of ways. Considered a healthy source of vitamins.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Peach
Description: A small tree widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, bearing pink flowers and fuzzy-coated, edible fruit. Often sliced and put in pies or tarts, or eaten fresh off the tree.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Pear
Description: A widely cultivated tree in the rose family, having glossy leaves, white flowers grouped in a corymb, and edible fruit. Also popular for pies and tarts, as well as eaten fresh.
Found In: Solhaven
Other Names: None.
Name: Pecan
Description: A deciduous tree having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Pine
Description: Various evergreen trees having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody, seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar. Many of the cones bear edible fruits called pinenuts, which can often be foraged when the cones have fallen to the ground. You might even be lucky enough to find a cone or needles in your search.
Found In: All
Other Names: None.
Name: Pine (bristlecone)
Description: See Pine, above.
Found In: Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Plum
Description: Any of several shrubs or small trees bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single hard-shelled stone that encloses the seed.
Found In: Elven Nations
Other Names: None.
Name: Rosewood
Description: A tropical/semitropical leguminous tree with a hard reddish wood with a strongly defined grain. Often used in homes, decoratively.
Found In: TE
Other Names: None.
Name: Spinewood
Description: Named for the small, round, sectioned trunks that resemble a spine, these bent, low, shrubby trees love a damp environment. Found growing along the banks of creeks and rivers, and often right down to the water, it maintains lush foliage most of the year. The spring offers a profusion of short-lived, pale pink flowers that appear shortly after the first warm spell, heralding the end of winter.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Spruce (blue)
Description: Any of various coniferous evergreen trees with needlelike foliage, drooping cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp. The blue spruce is called such due to the frosted blue hue of the needles.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, Zul Logoth
Other Names: None.
Name: Sycamore
Description: A deciduous tree having palmately lobed leaves, ball-like, nodding, hairy fruit clusters, and bark that flakes off in large colorful patches.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Tanik
Description: The blue tanik is thought to have originally come from the legendary Great Forest. Its limbs curve downward, then up, and its twigs hang pendulously. The needles curve upward, and grow to a length of 8 to 10 inches. The cones are large and in spring, shed powdery, yellow pollen literally by the cupful. Normally the tree grows to heights close to a hundred feet, however, there are legends that tell of taniks reaching gargantuan sizes within the great unexplored southern forests. The tanik is prized in the craft of papermaking. The crisp, long-lasting parchment produced from this conifer are unequalled.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: Tonak.
Name: Torban
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Walnut
Description: A deciduous tree featuring pinnately compound leaves and a round, sticky outer fruit wall that encloses a nutlike stone with an edible seed.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Rest
Other Names: None.
Name: Willow
Description: A graceful tree with long branches and distinctive leaves composed of many small leaflets attached to an extremely long stem. Often found along fresh source waterways and in cultivated park-like settings. A good shade tree.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing, River's Resten
Other Names: None.
Name: Witchwood
Description: A highly magical wood taken from a twisted bush that grows only in graveyards. Only small weapons are likely to be made from it, and its most common use is in wands and staves. It is most potent when used for spells of subtle destruction and is often cursed.
Found In: Wehnimer's Landing
Other Names: None.
Name: Wyrmwood
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Yabathilium
Description: See Plants and Herbs.
Name: Yew
Description: It is said, the easiest place to find the yew tree is within the ancient cemeteries. In truth, any particular yew may well be far older than the cemetery that surrounds it. Yews have a tremendous capacity for longevity. Its branches grow down into the ground to form new stems, which grow to become trunks of separate but linked growth. In time, the central trunk becomes old and the insides decay, but a new tree grows within the spongy mass of the old, and eventually, cannot be distinguished from the original. It is from this that the yew has come to symbolize great age, rebirth and reincarnation. The yew produces a close-grained, elastic wood that is similar to maple.
Found In: River's Rest
Other Names: None.