Plants on Gor

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...Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect. It is thought that...the branches of the Brak Bush discourage entry of bad luck into the houses of the citizens....
---Assassin of Gor, 16:211
USES: medicinal
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I then rose to my feet and walked a few yards away, to a fan palm. From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water. I retuned to the girl and, carefully, washed out the wound. She winced. I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut this simple bandage with the tendrils of a carpet plant.
---Explorers of Gor, 34:347
USES: binding(?)
REGION: rainforests of Schendi

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I set her down on a bed of green clover. Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees....
---Tarnsman of Gor, 7:96
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"Is it from Earth?" I asked.
"Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ultimately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth."
"Do the trees grow near here?" I asked.
"No, Mistress," she said. "We obtain the beans, from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who, in turn, obtain them in the tropics."
---Kajira of Gor, 3:61
USES: beans for chocolate
REGION: tropics

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the dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor; in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower; ...But perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.
---Slave Girl of Gor, 3:61- 62
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REGION: northern temperate areas of Gor on hills

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"What do you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery." He said, "some grass, some rence, two trees." "What sort of shrubbery?" I asked. "Some festal," he said. "some tes, a bit of tor."
---Vagabonds of Gor, 30:339
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REGION: Vosk Delta

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...Occasionally we passed a water hole, and the tents of nomads. 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 twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves....
---Tribesmen of Gor, 4:72
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REGION: Tahari desert oases

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There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us.
---Hunters of Gor, 11:154
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... a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
---Raiders of Gor, 1:2
USES: bow string
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On the rise there were two trees, white barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves....
... They were Hogarthe trees, named for Hogarthe, one of the early explorers in the area of the Barrens. They are not uncommon in the vicinity of water in the Barrens, usually growing along the banks of small streams or muddy, sluggish rivers. Their shape is very reminiscent of poplar trees on Earth, to which perhaps, in virtue of seeds brought to the Counter-Earth, they may be related.
---Blood Brothers of Gor, 34:300
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REGION: near water in the Barrens

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In the distance I could see some patches of yellow, the Ka-la-na groves that dot the fields of Gor.
Book 2 page 19

The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..."
p.250, Captive of Gor

a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket... I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it cost only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave... It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female."
p.114, Captive of Gor

"And there was, too, the great bow, of yellow, supple Ka-la-na, tipped with notched bosk horn, with its cord of hemp, whipped with silk, and the roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
Raiders of Gor, page 68

I could see the shadows of tall Ka-la-na trees bending against the darkness of the night, their leaves lifting and rustling on the long branches.
Outlaw

SEE ALSO Ka-la-na

USES: edible fruit, wine, wood used for weapons
REGION: apparently plentiful through Gor

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Most was I surprised to find him holding a tiny, round pipe from which curled a bright wisp of smoke. Tobacco is unknown on Gor, though there are certain vices or habits to take its place, in particular the stimulation afforded by chewing on the leaves of the Kanda plant, the roots of which, oddly enough, when ground and dried, constitute an extremely deadly poison.
--Priest-Kings of Gor, 3:24

...Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a string of rolled kanda leaf.
The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in desert regions on Gor, are extremely toxic, but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed into strings and, chewed or sucked, are much favored by many Goreans, particularly in the southern hemisphere, where the leaf is more abundant.
Kutaituchik, not taking his eyes off us, thrust one end of the green kanda string in the left side of his mouth and, very slowly, began to chew it....
--Nomads of Gor, 7:43

It was a throwing knife, of a sort used in Ar, much smaller than the southern quiva, and tapered on only one side. It was a knife designed for killing. Mixed with the blood and fluids of the body there was a smear of white at the end of the steel, the softened residue of a glaze of kanda paste, now melted by body heat, which had coated the tip of the blade. On the hilt of the dagger, curling about it, was the legend, 'I have sought him. I have found him.' It was a killing knife. 'The Caste of Assassins?' I had asked. 'Unlikely,' had said the Older Tarl, 'for Assassins are commonly too proud for poison.'"
page 42, Assassin of Gor
USES: medicinal, relaxation, poison
REGION: Gorean Deserts

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First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, …the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… 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, p 45
USES: ingredient in sullage
REGION: sandy soiled areas - deserts

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SEE Leech Plant
REGION: Grows in patches in open fields in northern hemisphere.

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...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 up 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, 32:310
USES: source of drinking water
REGION: Rainforests

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...and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking.
---Raiders of Gor, 10:141
USES: shipbuilding, needle oil used in perfumes
REGION:Northern Forest

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There is an incredible variety of trees in the rain forest, how many I cannot conjecture. There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone. Some of these palms have leaves which are twenty feet in length. One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened 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, 32:310

Many goods pass in and out of Schendi,as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals,jewels,tapestries,rugs,silks,horn and horn products,medicines,sugars and salts,scrolls,papers,inks,lumber,stone,cloth,ointments,perfumes,dried fruit,some dried fish,many root vegetables,chains,craft tools,agricultural implements,such as hoe heads and metal flail blades,wines and pagas,colorful birds and slaves. Schendi's most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides,with kailiauk horn and horn products also being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine.
Explorers of Gor, page 115
USES: wine, source of water,
REGION: rainforest

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The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of the length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it has an excrescent, usually single floral spike. The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper. The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for dertain wooden tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further, its pith is edible, and for the rence growers is, with fish, a staple in their diet; the pith is edible both raw and cooked; some men, lost in the delta, not knowing the pith edible, have died of starvation in the midst of what was, had they known it, an almost endless abundance of food. The pith is also used, upon occasion, as a caulking for boat seams, but tow and pitch, covered with tar or grease, are generally used.
Raiders of Gor: Page 7
USES: paper, fuel, tools, material, food
REGION: Vosk Delta

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SEE Rep - plant, fiber & cloth REGION: below Ar ad above equator

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SEE Sa-tarna
USES: grain - ground to flour and also used to make Paga
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It was late in the afternoon, the fourteenth Gorean Ahn I would have guessed. Some swarms of insects hung in the sedge here and there but I had not been much bothered: it was late in the year, and most of the Gorean insects likely to make life miserable for men bred in, and frequented, areas in which bodies of unmoving, fresh wather were plentiful.
Kajira pg. 130

(Merriam Webster defines "sedge" - any of a family (Cyperaceae, the sedge family) of usually tufted marsh plants differing from the related grasses in having achenes and solid stems; especially.
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REGION: - Marshes of the Vosk Delta

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"It is bitter!" I said, touching my lips to it. "It is the standard concentration, and dosage," be said, "plus a little more, for assurance. Its effect is indefinite, but it is normally renewed annually, primarily for symbolic purposes. I could not believe how bitter it was. I had learned from Susan, whom I had once questioned on the matter, the object. It is prepared from a derivative of sip root. The formula, too, I had learned, at the insistence of masters and slavers, had been improved by the caste of physicians within the last few years. It was now, for most practical purposes, universally effective.
Kajira pg. 130
USES: active ingredient in slave wine
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There is a little market in simple Laura for the more exquisite goods of Gor. Seldom will one find there Torian rolls of gold wire, interlocking cubes of silver from Tharna, rubies carved into tiny, burning panthers from Schendi, nutmegs and cloves, spikenard and peppers from the lands east of Bazi, the floral brocades, the perfumes of Tyros, the dark wines, the gorgeous diaphanous silks of glorious Ar. Life, even by Gorean standards, is primitive in the region of the Laurius, and northward, to the great forests, and along the coast, upward to Torvaldsland.
Captive

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In the distance, perhaps some forth pasangs away, I saw of set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talendars, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens....
---Outlaw of Gor, 15:131

The talendar is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talendars. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talendars in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves....
---Raiders of Gor, 15:216-217

...The talender, fixed in her hair, is a slave girl's wordless confession, which, commonly, she dares not speak, that she cares for her Master....
---Hunters of Gor, 5:65
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The drover threw back the hood of his burnoose, and pulled down the veil about his face. Beneath the burnoose he wore a skullcap. The rep-cloth veil was red; it had been soaked in a primitive dye, mixed from water and the mashed roots of the telekint; when he perspired, it had run; his face was stained....
---Tribesmen of Gor, 4:83
USES: roots to make red dyes
REGION: Tahari

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...Tem-wood for rudders and oars; ...
---Raiders of Gor, 10:141

...there was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple....
--- Nomads of Gor, 19:217

The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. A loose loop of boskhide, wound twice about the right fist, helps to retain the weapon in hand-to-hand combat. It is seldom thrown.
Nomads of Gor, page 15
USES: shipbuilding, weapons
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I looked upwards, and about the room. The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, veminia and teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant. Lola had done well.
Guardsman
USES: decoration
REGION: seen in Victoria

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The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine," is a derivative of teslik.
---Blood Brothers of Gor, 37:320
USES: active ingredient in breeding wine
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"What do you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery." He said, "Some grass, some rence, two trees."
"What sort of shrubbery?" I asked.
"Some festal," he said. "Some tes, a bit of tor."
"You are sure it is a tor shrub?" I asked. He looked. "Yes," he said.
"I too, think it is a tor shrub," I said. The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety. It was a very lovely shrub in bloom. It was not in bloom now, of course, as it flowers in the fall.
He looked at me. "So?" he asked.
"Do you notice anything unusual about it?" I asked.
"No," he said.
"How high is it?" I asked.
"I would say some five feet in height," he said.
"That too, would be my estimate," I said.
"I do not understand," he said.
"Does that not seem interesting to you?" I asked.
"Not really," he said.
"It does to me," I said.
"Why?" he asked.
"The tor shrub," I said, "does not grow higher than a man's waist."
---Vagabonds of Gor, 30:339
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REGION: Vosk Delta

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..I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white, peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible.
---Nomads of Gor, 8:59

Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds,on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier.
Tribesman of Gor, 45
USES: edible fruits
REGION: valleys of the western Cartius, plains of Turia

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..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, 19:217

...The forests of the northern temperate latitudes of Gor are countries in themselves, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs of area. They contain great numbers of various species of trees, and different portions of the forests may differ considerably among themselves. The most typical and famous tree of these forests is the lofty, reddish Tur tree, some varieties of which grow more than two hundred feet high. It is not known how far these forests extend....
We found ourselves now in a stand of the lofty Tur trees. I could see broadly spreading branches some two hundred feet or more above my head. The trunks of the trees were almost bare of branches until, so far above, branches seemed to explode in an interlacing blanket of foliage, almost obliterating the sky.....
---Captive of Gor, 9:130

...Tur wood is used for galley frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking; ...
---Raiders of Gor, 10:141
USES: beams, posts, planks
REGION: abundant in Northern Forest

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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 a shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed into 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, 2:50-51
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REGION: Tahari, and Thentis

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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, 4:71-72
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REGION: Tahari