Perian

Perian trees are a variety of slender flowering virid tree, found throughout the tropics.

Perian wood is light and flexible, yet strong, and is therefore valued as a building material, perian canes being particularly useful as scaffolding. The trees however are unusually invasive in greenwood areas.

The Golden Perian is a variety originally bred by the Heronbaht, for its colour and particularly the thickness of its trunk, enabling it to be made into planking. The Sann'ali later discovered that golden perian wood is particularly useful in shipbuilding, since not only is its world flexible, durable and attractive, but it repels screw-worms and other marine life which otherwise foul the hulls of ships. Golden perian wood became a vital naval resource for the construction of the Sann'ali savant, the workhorse of Sann'al's “Golden Navy”. The golden tree was adopted as the symbol of Sann'al's royal family, and remains an important symbol for Besoan emigrés.