Kas-fruit

Kas-fruit is the red or yellow fruit of the kasflower, a perennial flowering plant or bush believed to be native to Anrel.

It is found growing throughout the Mainland, particularly in the wilder regions of Trésard. Kasflowers are a vibrant purplish pink, with long, elegantly bell-shaped petals. The flowers produce small, solanaceous fruits with a sweet flesh and a lightly floral aroma.

Kas-flowers are commonly considered to be virid, since they thrive in poor soils, cracks in rocks, and amongst undergrowth in virid woodland. As such they are subject to virid taboo in the Anrel Isles, considered to be poisonous and treated as invasive weeds to be rooted out. In truth they are green plants which have evolved to thrive equally well in either a greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen

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Unusually there is no mention of kasflowers in herbals dating before a thousand years ago, unusual in that almost all of the flora and fauna of Anrelplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnrel Isles

Anrel [ANN-rel], or the Anrel Isles, is the most northerly island group in the Natorn Archipelago. It consists of three major islands and numerous smaller ones. The largest, colloquially if infrequently called Mainland, is divided between the kingdoms of Trésard and Narette. The island was well documented by the ancients. As such it is assumed to be an invasive plant from the south, although it is not found in abundance outside the isles, though there are examples in gardens in Besoa and Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

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One legend tells that the “poisonous” plant was created by the evil magician Belikast as a temptation to the foolish and unwary. It is unknown whether this is the source of the name, or whether the story was created later to explain the name. Magisters of the Rasian Academy point out that magic has its limits, and it is not possible to create something from nothing using magic alone.