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a shrub whose leaves have a purgative effect when chewed; traditionally branches of it are nailed to house doors during the Waiting Hand to discourage the entry of bad luck into the house for the New Year.
Almost all doors, including that of the House of
Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when
chewed, have a purgative effect.
Assassin of Gor, page 211
a plant of the rainforest area inland of Schendi having tendrils that can be used to tie things.
I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about
it. I tied this simple bandage shut with the tendrils of a carpet plant.
Explorers of Gor, page 347
a small short-stemmed flower indigenous to hillsides; sometimes called the 'slave flower' it is often used as a design for slave brands; sometimes used as a slave name.
my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a
small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green
leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor; in its
budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it
is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows more frequently, as the slave flower
Slave Girl of Gor, page 61
found in the jungles of Schendi the are more than 20 feet high and spread their leaves in the form of an opened fan. An excellent source of water for as much as a liter can be found at the base of each leaf's stem.
One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet
high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an open fan, is an excellent source of pure
water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped at the base
of each leaf's stem.
Explorers of Gor, pages 310
a tree of the Tahari having lanceolate leaves and narrow branches, the trunk leans like that of a palm tree.
About some of these water holes there were a dozen or
so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than
twnety feet high; they are narrow branched with lanceolate leaves.
Book 10, page 72
a largish scarlet flower having 5 petals.
There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet,
large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us.
Hunters of Gor, page 154
a plant which grows in desert regions of Gor. It's roots are extremely toxic, even poisonous, but the leaves can be rolled and formed into strings which are chewed or sucked to produce a stimulant effect; addictive.
The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in
desert regions on Gor, are extremely toxic, but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this
plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed int ostrings and, chewed or sucked, are
much favored by many Goreans, particularly in the southern hemisphere, where the leaf is
more abundant.
Nomads of Gor, page 43
a living rooted plant with bladder-like seed pods, it can fasten two hollow fang-like thorns into its victim through which it can suck the blood that nourishes it. A chemical response of the pods cause a mechanical pumping action, giving them an eerie resemblance to contracting and expanding lungs.
The leech plant strikes like a cobra, and fastens two
hollow thorns into its victim. The chemical responces of the bladderlike pods
produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it.
Outlaw of Gor, page33
a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water.
Another useful source of water is the liana
vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being
withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion to the vine. The second cut, made a foot or
so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a
liter of water.
Explorers of Gor, page 310
an evergreen tree of the Thentis region whose oil is used in perfumes.
...and the needle trees, the evergreens...
Raiders of Gor, page 141
More than 1500 varieties of palm trees exist in the rainforest one of which is the Fan Palm more than 20 ft high.
There is an incredible variety of trees in the
rainforest, how many I cannot conjecture. There are, however, more than fifteen
hundred varieties and types of palm alone.
Explorers of Gor, page 310
a tufted reed-like plant that grows in the marshes; it has long thick roots about four inches thick which lies under the surface of the water with smaller roots that sink down to the mud with stems 15-16 feet long with a single floral spike. Each part of the rence is used for something. Some parts being edible while others can be used for carving, caulking, making paper, or a host of other things.
A kind of paper is made from rence. The plant
itself has a long, thick root, about four inches think, which lies horizonally under the
surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from the main root, and
several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen
to sixteen feet from the root; it has an excrescent, usually single floral spike.
Raiders of Gor, page 7
a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small reddish woody bush used to make rep-cloth.
Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed
pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several area, but particularly
below Ar and above the equator.
Raiders of Gor, page 10
a shrub whose salty blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage, a Gorean soup.
...and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes
Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45
a rambling, tangled, vine-like plant with huge, rolling leaves raised in the pasture chambers of the Nest.
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product
originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the
morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling,
tangled vine-like plants with huge, rolling leaves, raised under square energy lamps fixed
in the ceilings of the braod pasture chambers.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 214
a bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient
in slave wine.
Book 18, pages 46, 124 and 319
Delicate and yellow petaled, a fragrant meadow flower; when worn in a slave girl's hair, it is a symbol of deep submission and emotional attachment to her owner. It is also worn as a symbol of love by FreeWomen.
The talender is a flower which, in the Gorean mind,
is associated with beauty and passion. Free Compaions, on the Feast of their Free
Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders. Sometimes slave girls, having been
subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talenders in their hair, that their master may
know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves.
Raiders of Gor, page 217
a plant of the Tahari, its roots mashed and mixed with water provide a red dye.
The rep-cloth veil was red; it had been soaked in a
primitive dye, mixed from waer and the mashed roots of the telekint; when he perspired, it
had run; his face was stained.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 83
a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in
breeding wine.
Book 18, page 320
translated as the 'bright shrub' or the 'shrub of
light' because of it's abundant bright flowers either yellow or white depending on the
variety. It flowers in the fall.
Book 24, page 339
found in Turia, it has lovely dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hang from curved branches. In pleasure gardens, the trees are cultivated so that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle delicate patterns of shades and hues.
And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree
in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of
interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. I knew that the
clusters of flowers which, cluster upon cluseter, graced those linear, hanging stems,
would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers
emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues.
Nomads of Gor, page 217
a tree of the Barrens named for one of the early
explorers of the area. They tend to grow on the banks of small streams or muddy, sluggish
rivers. Similar to poplar trees of Earth.
Book 18, page 300
a tree with very strong yellow wood used for making
bows; the fruit of the ka-la-na is used to make ka-la-na wine.
Book 1, page 96
in Turia, found in groves; linear, supple and black
there was also, at one side of the garden, against
the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple.
Nomads of Gor, page 15
described as reddish and large-trunked, it is found in Turia. The realm of Turia is said to have taken it's name from a solitary Tur tree found planted long ago on the plains.
there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about
which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet,
ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are
edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I
had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before
by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name
Nomads of Gor, page 217
a vine-like tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves which are edible and an ingredient of sullage, a gorean soup.
there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about
which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet,
ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are
edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I
had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before
by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name
Nomads of Gor, page 217
small, purplish flower found in the Tahari; used to make perfume oil for hand washing.
The petals of veminium, the "Desert
Veminium" purplish, as opposed to the "Thentis Veminium," bluish, which
flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in shallow baskets and carried to a
still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed in oil.
This oil is used to perfume water. This water is not drunk, but is used in middle
and upper-class homes to rinse the eating hand, before and after the evening meal.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 51
a bluish wildflower commonly found on the
lower ranges of the Thentis mountains; used in perfumes.
The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with
the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wild flower commonly found on the lower slopes
of the Thentis range
Assassin of Gor, page 163
a brownish grass that grows, stubbornly, in the shaded spots of the Tahari.
On the shaded sides of some rocks, and the shaded
slopes of hills, here and there, grew stubborn, brownish patches of verr grass.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 71
