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[Sabsab Brush] [Sage] [Saponin root] [Saw grass] [Scrub pine] [Seabeachplum] [Sea bush] [Seagrass] [Seaplant] [Seaweeds] [Sequoi-like tree] [Shallow-water sea grass] [Shrub] [Sisal] [Sky-broom] [Softwoods] [Soybeans] [Spearkeek] [Spiceroot] [Spongewood trees] [Sticklebush] [Straw] [Streamer] [Sugar Beets] [Sungazers] [Swamp grass] [Swedes] [Sweet cane] [Sweet grass] [Sweetroot, sweet potatoe] [Tansy] [Tarragon] [Teak-like hardwood tree, teakwood] [Thymus] [Trace Moss] [Tubers] [Turnips] [Tussilago]
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.
Uses:roots produce a yellow for paints.
Outside Info: Evergreen, grows to 80cm. Has mauve-blue flowers in summer. There are many varieties of sage. Sage is used to aid in the digestion of fatty meats, and is popular in poultry stuffings. Leaf tea is an antiseptic nerve and blood tonic. Contains hormone precursors that help irregular mensturation and menopause symptoms. Avoid large doses during pregnancy. Burn on embers or boil in water to disenfect a room. Sage smoke deoderizes animal and cooking smell. Rub fresh leaf on teeth to whiten them, or use in a mouthwash. Clary sage seed infused in water may be used to remove foreign matter from eyes painlessly. The leaf of sage helps combat diarrhea. The tea reduces sweating, sooths coughs and colds. Sage should not be taken in large doses over long periods.
Misc.: obnoxious weed
General habitat: 'higher reaches' (dragonlovers guide)-hills/higher ground over the flat plains(?)
Flowers: Pink blossoms
General habitat: low marsh valleys
Known location: beaches by Half-Circle Seahold.
Misc.: a few early sour plums available in spring
Known location: near Half-Circle seahold
Uses: produces an oily seed-pod in fall
Known location: beaches by Half-Circle Seahold.
Misc.: aromatic
Uses: used braided by Menolly to join sections of her multiple pipes
General habitat: near shore.
Known location(s): beaches by Half-Circle seahold.
Uses: Boiled for the thick juice in the stalk, which is used as a preventitive for many sicknesses and bone ailments. Also used to make balls of a sweet that can be chewed for hours, keeping mouth fresh and moist. Purple grass seed (unknown whether grass or seed is 'purple') used to flavor the balls. Leaves can be wrapped around meat to allow it to slow-cook.
Known locations: Southern
Misc.: inimical to fire, tend to rot in center, to form shells of trees
Known location: near Half-Circle seahold
Known location:Southern Continent 2nd pass
Uses: gives off rich pungent odor when bruised
Uses: spun into thread
Known locations: Lemos. Skybroon trees begin at the northern Lemos end of the Keroon Plains.
Uses: construction
Misc.: the wood is difficult to work, but highly prized in the WoodcraftHall. Used for some harps, possibly other instruments. Highest quality of material for a painter's 'canvas' in the 2nd Pass.
Known location:Lemos
Uses: used to make furniture
Known locations: Fort Hold
Uses: edible, used in several dishes.
Outside Info: Grows to 2m. White or voilet flowers, hairy seed pods. Foliage is good stock food and fertilizer. It helps prevent heart disease and is valuable for diabetics since their sugars remain unabsorbed. Beans are made into soy sauce, tofu, soy 'milk', are sprouted for their shoots. Soya is ground into flour. The beans yield cooking oil, and lubricant. The plant stimulates blood circulation, detoxifies, lowers fevers and treats food poisoning.
Uses: edible medicinal, febrifuge. Used by Moreta as a hopeful preventitive for the plague.
Misc.: grow quickly
Known Location:by trace to Fort Hold
Uses: Berries are used for preserves.
Misc.:Dried leavs and twigs have bitter, acrid, drying taste. In early spring there are no leavs to hide the hairlike, nearly invisible thorns that cover twig and branch. Sap rises in early spring, and it is the worst time to get caught in the bush. Stickle slivers can work their way through flesh into the blood. If a sliver reaches your heart, you could die from it. Most slivers can be pulled out by hand or tweezer, but some need poulticing to draw out the sliver.
Uses: bedding, in Igen used as insulation for straw-padded boxes containing pitchers of cold drinks.
Uses: fronds woven into matting
Known locations: Fort Hold,several northern Holds
Uses: used for sweetining
Flowers: simiar to Earth's strawflower or windflower
Known location: Southern Weyr
Uses: edible
Known locations:Nerat, Boll, Ista
Uses: made into sweetening
Outside Info: Grows up to 6m. Clump-forming rhizomes, perennial grass. The peeled cane is added to Thai fish stews. Cane juice yields brown and white sugars. Byproducts are made into molasses, syrup, and rum. Cane sugar sweetend, flavors and preserves foods by inhibiting microorganisims. Cane juice soothes symptoms of asthma and is given as an expectorant. In Asia, it is applied to wounds and boils. The root is a diuretic. Stem residue can be made into a wax for polish.
Uses: can be eaten uncooked. Used to relieve/sweat out fever (febrifuge) and for headache(?).
Misc.: taken in crystal-like form.
Outside Info: Grows to 120cm, with clusters of flat, mustard yellow flower heads in summer. It is a powerful insect repellant. Aerial parts are a poultice for bruises, rheumatism, and vericose veins. It may cause poisoning if taken internally. Rub leavs on meat to flavor. Boil flower for a golden yellow dye, boil the leaf for a yellow green woolen dye. Use in stimulating and astrigent baths for mature and sallow skin. Avoid if you have sensitive skin. Do not use during pregnancy.
Uses: medicinal and/or cooking herb
Outside Info: Grows to 1m, greenish flowers. Flavors savory foods. Leaf tea stimulates the appetite, is a digestive, and a good tonic. Chewing leavs numbs taste buds before taking bitter medicine. The root reduced tooth ache. 2 main varieties exist- French, with a more refined flavor but the plant needs protection in the winter, and Russian, which is hartier. Add leaf to mayo for fish dishes, salad dressings, light soups. Goes well with poultry.
Known location: nerat
Known location: near Fort Hold
Uses: medidcinal herb, for coughs. Used on runners as well as humans.
Outside Info: There are many varieties, most grow to about 38cm. Lillac colored summer flowers. Thyme aids digestion of fatty foods. It is ideal for long, slow cooking of soups and stews. The essential oil is a stimulant and antisceptic- a nerve tonic used externally to treat depression, colds, muscular pain, and respitory problems. The essential oil is added to acne lotions, soaps, toothpastes and mouthwashes. Thyme strenghtens the immune system. It suits food cooked slowly in wine, especially poultry, fish, hot vegetables, fruit salads, and jams. It is also used to flavor beer. Make a strong decoction to serve as a household disenfectant. Infuse with rosemary as a hair rinse to deter dandruff. The tea is a digestive tonic for hangovers, and may also relieve insomnia, poor capilarry circulation, muscular pain, and stimulate production of white blood cells to resist infection.
Known Location:on any runner trace in the Northern Continent.
Uses: to provide a firm but springy surface for runners
Misc: A runner can tell if he or she strays from a trace by the feel of the trace moss. The legendary 'Lopers' originally planted the moss, and it has been maintained since. The moss dosen't do as well in the heat of Boll as it does in the North. The moss doesn't stain runner shoes.
Known location: Half-circle seahold, Ista, Southern, Southern Boll
Uses: edible
Misc.: Can be baked in mud in a cookout fire. (other foods including fish can also be baked in this manner.) White tubers (white roots?) found in Southern.
Known locations: Fort Hold, northern farms under Benden Weyr
Uses: edible
Outside Info: Grows to 30cm. The plant is commonly known as colt's foot, tussilago is the Genus name. It is a perennial with creeping rhyzomes, dull yellow flowers in early spring that turn into a dandelion-like seed head. Tender leavs are eaten n soups and salads. Used to treat coughs, skin ulcers, and sores. Flowers reduce phlegm, inflammation, and stimulate immune cells. Use with caution externially- it contains small amounts of potentially damaging alkaloids, which research suggests sre destroyed when the plant is boiled. All parts of plant contain mucilage, good for coughs and bronchitis. Decoct leavs for colds, flu, and asthma.