Handfruit

Handfruit are carpel-like growths of the handfruit bush, a virid plant native to virid jungles in the southwest of Anásthias.

They produce a composite body with multiple “fingers”, often fused together with the outer ones curled and the central fingers erect. They were adopted as a symbol of the Mother Church in the fifth century ME, symbolising a fusion of human form and virid plant. They are a common feature in temple gardens or pandatas, and representations of them are common in Theristplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMother Church of Ororr (Therism)

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The “hands” are naturally a yellow or purplish colour, but have been selectively bred for their size, shape and colour, red being the most popular variety. Botanically they are not fruit at all but a means of attracting insects and small animals to a pocket in the “palm” of the hand, containing seeds.

They are edible to some virid animals but mildly toxic to humans.