Tutum

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The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. bush with glossy leaves, found throughout the Civilised World but particularly in Anrel. It is a successionary plant which grows in the burn zone between virid and green biomes, though it is only able to flourish in the presence of ream moss. One of its principle survival mechanisms is producing viricidal enzymes which act as a system toxin to virid plants. Its leaves are normally a rich glossy green, but when its roots or leaves come into the briefest contact with virid plants, they turn quickly from yellow to orange-red as the plant's biochemistry devotes itself to producing poison.

Consequently, tutum bushes are commonly used as hedging plants around farmland, since they ward off the encroachment of virid weeds which would otherwise kill crops. They are also a warning sign of virid encroachment. They are self-seeding but new plants are unable to thrive in virid soil.

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Herbs are usually green plants cultivated and used for use in medicine, cooking or for other purposes.

Herblore is the traditional practice of making decoctions, extracts, powders and other preparations from the roots, leaves, seeds, bark and fruit of plants found across the world.greengreenAnásthiasAnásthiasgreenMunatangreengreen, particularly in Reidan cuisine, where they are considered a medicine that wards off illnesses like veilspor, though their efficacy is uncertain. However, their main culinary use is a as a signifier of virid poisoning. Mature leaves immersed in a broth steeped in virid contamination turn yellow. This practice was a particular feature of the Grand Palatinate of Saloya, where poisoning was a common political tool.