Key: H=this plant is listed only in a historic manner, and may or may not currently
exist on Pern. It can probably be safely assumed it still exists somewhere. I=This plant is a known import to Pern from Earth N=This plant is a known native to Pern ?=I was uncertain of the information, and made an educated guess.
Growth form: small, branchy, drooping tree. Flowers: fragrant, pink(DragonQuest) yellow(DragonLovers Guide) clustered blooms
with pointed petals. Has clusters of berry-like fruit. Fruit: Fellis juice made from the fruit, which has though skins.
Known locations: Southern Weyr area, Nerat, Telgar Hold, Fort Hold, Paradise
River Hold (wild), Ruatha Uses: dye (dyes wherhide a deep green), narcotic painkiller that can be
addictive. Wood is used to carve furniture. Misc.: At Paradise river, Fellis trunks grow larger than 3 men could span with
fingers touching. Large enough amounts can be lethal. (Nerkila)
Growth form: Earth flax Known location: Boll Uses: fiber for weaving
Outside Info: Stem yields durable fibers, used to make linen and twine. It has slender
stems with linear green leavs, flat blue flowers, and oily brown seeds. The mineral-rich seeds
yield cold-pressed oil for cooking and hot pressed linseed oil for artist's and industrial use.
Seeds contain soothing mucilage, oil contains fatty acids that reduces the risk of thrombosis and
treats nutritional deficiencies. Internal overdose may cause poisoning. The seeds can also be used in 'eye pillows' to gently cool tired or sore eyes.
Growth form: Tree. Thick and spongy fronds. Known location: Ista Uses: Fronds can be used as improvised forrest bedding. The fronds make handy
needlethorn packages, as the sap from the cut edges of leavs forms its own
glue. Leaf sap will also seal puncture wounds. In _Moreta_, it was stated
that softnuts (which are edible) were 'on all the trees', so it could be
assumed that they are ging softnuts. Misc.: Moreta described the ging forrest in the fall as "a green face with a
thousand black-rimmed eyes." Needlethorn is always found in the prescence of
ging trees.
Growth form: Tree General habitat: open plains Uses: Colonists used Ginkgo to break ground and provide shelter for oak and
pine seedlings.
Outside Info: Notched, fan-sheped leavs that turn yellow in fall. The seeds and leavs
are used in Chineese medicine for lung problems. Extract from yellow leavs contains vitamins
that strengthens blood vessels and reduces production of tissue-damaging 'free radicals' and
tarpones (which reduce clump-forming blood platelets). It is said to improve brain efficiency
and cellular energy. When ripe, the seeds give off a foul-smelling odor.
Uses: it is a tart fruit. Reference to the Perneese Goru pear (it's mentioned in the Freedon series as well) can be found in Moreta, chapter 5 (p.68 of paperback version)
Known location: near Benden Weyr, Telgar, Half-Circle seahold, Paradise River
Hold Uses: edible Misc.: most of grain consumed in north grown by Telgar. Telgar also has
best beer in Pern
Outside Info: Processed grape residue is used to make cream of tartar. The leavs provide
a food wrap, pressed seeds produce a fine culinary oil, also valued for aromatherapy massage.
Location: River Islands in Southern. Uses: Tufts contain theraputic seeds, branches can be bundled and used as a
temporary raft(eventually they'll absorb too much water), the heart (just above
the root ball) can be dried and ground into a powder that is good for fever,
esp. Firehead. The shoots are edible.
Outside Info: In this case, most likely witchhazel. It is a large shrub with smooth brown
bark, fragrant winter flowers, and woodsy fruit capsules. A distillation fron the leavs and
flower-bearing twigs is used in skin products for it's disinfectant and astrigent properties.
It is used on chapped and sunburned skin, bruises, swelling, rashes, to stop bleeding, and to
reduce vericose veins and hemmoriods. Seeds are edible and can be brewed for a warming tea.
Outside Info: A large shrub that grows to 10m. Has male catkins in spring and clusters
of nuts in fall. Nuts are eaten raw and used in candy, cakes and liquers. The edible nut oil
is used in cooking, perfumes, and lubricants.
Uses: varieties of herbs are stored with clothes and bedsheets, possibly to keep bugs away
and to keep the cloth fresh-smelling. Aromatic herbs (possibly peppermint amoung others)
stepped in hot water to make breathing easier.
Uses: medicinal herb, used for coughs. It is said that a winecupfull a day
keeps off respitory problems, such as croup.
Outside Info: Semievergreen shrub with aromatic leavs and spikes of blue, two-tipped
late summer flowers. Leaf is added to liquors, adds bite to sweet and savory dishes, and aids in
digestion of fatty meals. Leavs contain antiseptic, antiviral oil. A mold that produces
pennicilin grows on the leavs. An infusion is taken as a sedative expectorant for the flu,
bronchitis, and phlegm. Leaf poultice treats bruises and wounds. The essential oil is used
in perfumes and treats cold sores, helps disperse bruises, and helps heal scars. The essential oil
should be used with caution, as it is fairly hazardous. Hyssop should be avoided by pregnant
women and people with hypertension or epilepsy. Hyssop is added to potpourris and laundry rinses.
Outside Info: One of the primary ingredients of beer. Young shoots are eaten as a vegetable,
leavs are blanched for soups. Hop tea is a nerve tonic, mild sedative, muscle relaxant. The
essential oil is used in perfumes and lotions. Hops can cause skin allerges. Dried flower bracts
can be used in herbal 'pillows' to aid/help induce sleep.
Outside Info: Ilex is part of the scientific name of the Holly family. The tea from
different spiecies have different medicinal uses, so it is probably the leaf tea that is used
to treat pneumonia on Pern.
Known locations: near Half-Circle seahold, Benden Hold
Uses: Bark is brewed to produce a coffee-like substance, tastes like a cross
between coffee and chocolate, with a spicy aftertaste. The bark is also used
as a spice.
Outside Info: Flowers flavor jams, vinegars, sweets, creams, stews. Dried flowers are
used in potpourri. Leaf is bitter and sometimes used in cooking. Flower water is a skin toner useful
for cell renewal and is an antiseptic for acne.
Flower tea treats anxiety, headaches, flatulence, nausea, dizziness, and halitosis. The essential
oil is used in perfumes and is antisceptic, mildly sedative, and painkilling. The oil is applied
to insect bites, treats burns, sore throats, and headaches. Oil is added to baths as a relaxant.
Treats rheumatic aches, insomnia, depression, high blood pressure, lymphatic congestion, poor
digestion, and menstural problems. Use the essential oil in a massage oil for muscle aches.
Use a few drops of oil in final rinse water for linen or hair. Because of it's versitality,
lavender essential oil is probably stocked in all holds, and is likely to be part of trader's
wares.
Outside Info: The stem and leaf have a distinct lemon flavor. Leaf tea treats diarrhea,
stomachache, headache, fevers, flu, and is antiseptic. The essential oil is used in cosmetics,
food, and aromatherapy to improve circulation and muscle tone. Antiseptic oil treats athlete's
foot and acne, a spray reduces airborne bacteria.
Outside Info: Grows to 2m. It has large, dark green celery-scented leavs and hollow
stems. Queen-Anne's lace type greenish yellow flowers bloom mid to late summer. Leavs give
body and aroma to soups and stews. The root is grated raw into salads, is pickled, or used as
a powdered condiment. Seeds are sprinkled on bread or rice, slaads, mashed potatoes, or steeped
in brandy for a settling digestive, and used in perfumes. An infusion of seeds, roots, or
leavs reduces water retention and assists the elimination of toxins. The expectorant root
treats mouth ulcers, tonsilitis, bronchitis, cystitis, and menstural pain. It should be avoided
during pregnancy and by those with kidney problems. Tea can be made from leaf. Stem can be steamed
and served with a white sauce, or chopoped into sopus or stews.
Growth form: weed Known location:Tillek Misc. Info Sends runnerbeasts (and possibly other animals) into convulsions. Typically, runnerbeasts don't
eat lur-weed.
Outside Info: Fast growing tree, grows up to 30m. 1-2 crops a year of large, musk-
scented fruit. Fruit can be eaten raw, candied, or pickled. Unripe fruit and tender leavs are
used as sour flavorings. In India, bark is used to treat internal bleeding, dysentary, and throat
diseases. Leaf ash is used for burns. A secret recipe for artist's paint used the urine of
cows fed on mango leavs. Unripe fruit, peel, seeds, flowers and resin have medicinal uses.
Growth form: herb, white and blue flowers Uses: analgesic herb
Outside Info: Has clusters of almond-scented cream blossoms. Grows to 2m. Flowers give an
almond flavor to meads, herb wines, jam, and stewed fruit. Dried flowers scent linnen and yield
an astrigent skin tonic. Flower buds contain salicylic acid, and can be used similar to aspirin.
Flower tea can be used for stomach ulcers and headaches, as an antiseptic diuretic, and for
feverish colds, diarrhea, and heartburn. Tea is mildly painkilling. Antiinflammitory action treats
rheumatism. Flowering tops make a greenish yellow dye, leavs make a blue dye, the roots a black dye.
Known locations: Benden Weyr bowl Uses: seasoning(?). Mint sticks rubbed over teeth as a toothbrush/mouthwash
Outside Info: There are dozens of varieties of mints, with different flavors and medicinal
uses. All mints or mint products should be used sparingly or avoided completely during pregnancy.
Outside Info: There are many varieties of mustard, and each has different medicinal properties.
Black mustard was once the most widely used to make the condiment known as mustard before being
replaced with the more mechanical harvester friendly brown mustard. It is possible that one or both
of these varieties exist on Pern. Black mustard seeds stimulate circulation, treat bronchitis,
give a warming footbath, and in a poultice they reduce inflammation. Treats chillbains and rheumatism.
Oil is a lubricant. In China, brown mustard seeds are used to treat colds, stomach problems,
abscesses, rheumatism, lumbago, and ulcers. The leavs treat bladder inflamation. 1 tablespoon
of crushed seed in warm water induces vomiting. Young leavs can be added to salad.
