Thornbrush

Thornbrush is a virid shrub found in the drier parts of Anásthiasplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAnásthias

Anásthias [a-NAS-thee-ass / ænæsθiːæs], or [an-ass-THEE-as] is an equatorial island continent, heart of the Civilised World. The north straddles the equator and is hot and humid, while most of the equatorial centre is an upland plateau with fertile river valleys, and stretches of arid plains and desert in the shadow of the mountains. The south is temperate but more wild, separated from the civilisations of the north by the almost impassable Harthera. Its leaves grow vicious hand-length thorns preventing grazing by animals. The plant is commonly used to mark boundaries and to provide fencing for animals. Unusual for a virid plant, it is more toxic to virid fauna than to humans or other mammals, so a decoction of its root is used as a virid repellent, and medicinally to treat veilspor and other virid infections.

Naturally thornbrush grow as clumps of low lying shrubs, but today they are cultivated in stands as hedging plants.