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• Amber reedplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAmber reed
  
  The amber reed is a virid plant found in tropical wetlands, particularly in northwestern Anásthias.
  
  It has been cultivated for millennia for its resin, amberglass, which hardens to a glass-like material used for numerous applications. Selective breeding has created many varieties of amber reed, which yield resins of differing colour, strength and viscosity.
• Appleplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigApple
  
  Apples are the spheroid fruit of the apple tree, a green plant found throughout the Civilised World. In mythology apples were said to be the favoured fruit of the Godmen, brought by them from the heavens.
  
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  There are hundreds of varieties of apple throughout the world, including many wild varieties.
• Awmplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigAwm
  
  Awm is a grain crop farmed in cooler and upland climates throughout the Civilised World, particularly the highlands of central Anásthias. It is the staple food of Torthien and upland parts of Munatan.
  
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  Awm is a grassy green plant which yields clusters of ovoid seeds roughly 0.8mm in length, ranging in colour from off-white to red or occasionally black, with a thick husk and a chewy innard. Red awm is colloquially cal…
• Balbalplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBalbal
  
  Balbal are virid trees native to the arid central regions of Anásthias, with a distinctive pear-shaped trunk.
  
  Their roots are squeezed by desert dwellers as a nutritious, if unappetising milk, as well as other food uses. They are a particular feature of the Anásthiasviridvirid
• Barleyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBarley
  
  Barley is a type of green grass, cultivated for its grain in temperate and upland areas throughout the Civilised World. It has been uses being ground to make bread, brewed to make beer and other beverages, as well as consumed whole in a variety of dishes.
  
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• Biology and Ecologyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBiology and Ecology
  
  Helevos has two separate families of life, which compete with each other for resources and space. Various cultures give different names for these two competing families, but in Anrel they are commonly called “the Virid and the Green”, a quotation from the GreenViridgreengreenGreengreenGreengreenviridGreenviridviridviridgreenviridgreengreengreengreenviridviridGreenviridgreenviridgreengreengreenViridgreenviridViridgreenviridviridviridViridgreenviridviridViridgreengreenviridgr…
• Bluefernplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBluefern
  
  Bluefern is a virid plant with distinctive blue feathery fronds, found principally in the temperate uplands of Anásthias. Its white tendrilous roots are ground and dried to form a potent narcotic known as sylin.
  
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• Buckleplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigBuckle
  
  Buckle, or boukul, is the seed of the bucklebush, a green plant which grows in temperate parts of the Civilised world. Bucklebushes fruit annually, producing thumb-length red-black seed pods, containing numerous millimetre-sized ovoid seeds. Mature pods are left to dry on the bush, then harvested for the seeds. Young pods are edible whole, though tender and do not travel well. In Ororr
• Butternutplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigButternut
  
  Butternuts are the edible seeds of the butternut tree, a green tree cultivated mostly in tropical Anásthias.
  
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  Butternuts grow in a hard gourd. When mature, the gourds fall and split to reveal the hard nuts inside. The nuts are surrounded by a thick, oil gel, which gives the fruit its name. The gel is sweet and nutritious, while the nuts are hard, but contain a rich, oily and mellow-sweet meat.
• Cable fruitplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCable fruit
  
  Cable fruit are the fruit of the cable tree, a virid plant which flourishes near water, both fresh and salt. They bear a large ball-like fruit with a tough leathery skin. Cable fruit are buoyant, and therefore allow the plant to spread across large distances.
• Candlenutplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCandlenut
  
  Candlenuts are the fruit of a virid shrub, whose oil is used for lighting, a variety of domestic and industrial uses, and refined for human consumption. Candlenut bushes are native to southern Otekahré, Munatan and the virid jungles of southwestern Ororr, where they form part of the staple diet.viridvirid
• Carrow grassplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCarrow grass
  
  Carrow is a variety of tough green grass common in marginal regions. Carrow grass has tall, broad, sharp-edged blades, coloured various shades from green to yellow to variegated, depending partly upon variety, but mostly due to soil conditions. It pollinates by wind, producing an abundance of fluffy airborne seed pods which can travel long distances.greengreengreen
• Chaterna Teabushplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigChaterna Teabush
  
  Chaterna or teabush is a green flowering plant with glossy leaves. The leaves are cultivated to make green tea, drunk throughout the civlised world. Other varieties are grown for their beautiful flowers, and teabushes are a popular feature of gardens.
• Colewortplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigColewort
  
  The coleworts are a family of edible green plants found throughout the Civilised World. There are many varieties, but most have large green leaves with white ribbing, though varieties range from light green to almost black, with some decorative varieties having a floral appearance with variegated leaves and red or purple ribbing.
• Crealplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigCreal
  
  The creal bush is a virid shrub native to the Manthi-lien. It is pyriscent, releasing its seeds during brush fires, which clear the undergrowth allowing seedlings to germinate.
  
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  Mature bushes have leaves and trunk impregnated with a flammable aromatic resin, which is distilled into an essential oil valued for its earthy fragrance. In virid
• Doughberryplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigDoughberry
  
  Doughberry is a green cereal plant cultivated for its seeds, which grow in clusters of spherical grains about 8mm in diameter. Freshly picked doughberries can be eaten raw, but more commonly are dried in the sun and rehydrated in hot water as a nutritious accompaniment to meals, where they have a soft, slightly chewy texture.Ororr
• Dragoraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigDragora
  
  The dragora is a virid tree found in swamps and coastal salt marshes. The trunks are have characteristic scales that give them a repitilian appeareance, with glossy, spiny leaves and limbs. The trunk's fleshy inner core holds a reserve of water and nutrients, enabling them to survive both during droughts or low
• Emmerplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigEmmer
  
  Emmer is a grassy green plant cultivated throughout the Civilised world for its edible grain seeds. Emmerseed is threshed and ground to make a heavy flour, used for bread and a wide variety of other products.
  
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  Although emmer is tolerant of a variety of climates, it gains the best yields in temperate climes with a moderate amount of rain. The foremost regions for emmer production are the central uplands of
• Evernessenceplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigEvernessence
  
  Evernessence is the narcotic extract of the evernut, the buds of a perennial virid shrub native to the upland jungles of central southern Anásthias. It was traditionally used by shamans of the Essep people as part of initiation and social rituals. Its use later spreading amongst the
• Goldmaneplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGoldmane
  
  Goldmane is an epiphytic virid plant often found growing in the nexial branches of virid, and sometimes green, trees. Goldmane is so named for it's golden hair-like fronds which are the plant's fruiting body, dispersing spor into the air.
  
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• Greenwingplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreenwing
  
  Greenwing, known as vunndalt [voon-dalt] in Anásthias from the Daltirich name, is a virid climbing plant valued for its medicinal purposes. It is native to warm virid jungles and even some green forests, growing on dead greenwood or climbing rocky outcrops. It is relatively rare, found in upland and mountainous regions.green
• Guri bushplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGuri bush
  
  The guri bush is a green flowering bush with variegated glossy leaves. The plant is valued for its bittersweet fruit, leathery pods with gelatinous insides. The fruit can be eaten raw, but is more famously used to produce the sweet liqueur wine,
• Handfruitplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHandfruit
  
  Handfruit are carpel-like growths of the handfruit bush, a virid plant native to virid jungles in the southwest of Anásthias.
  
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  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 viridTheristvirid
• Herbsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHerbs
  
  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
• Imbleplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigImble
  
  Imble is a virid plant native to tropical swamplands, where it flourishes due to its strength, flexibility, and tolerance to salt. The tree-like trunk is bulbous with a thick grey skin. Its core is a mass of fleshy strands which given the plant strength and function to regulate its internal salinity.virid
• Ironokeplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigIronoke
  
  Ironoke is a large variety of virid tree found and cultivated throughout Anásthias. They grow slowly but to an enormous size, with a large canopy and characteristic dark brown bole.
  
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  Ironoke produce the hardest known wood, which evolved to be resistant to fire and virid
• Jiaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigJia
  
  Jia is a herbal infusion made from the jia vine, consumed throughout the Civilised World. Jia is almost always served hot as a stimulant drink, said to have a cool, refreshing tingling sensation on the tongue.
  
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• Jikitagaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigJikitaga
  
  Jikitaga is a virid climbing plant with slender spiked leaves and vicious thorns. In nature it often grows around dead or dying virid trees, but it is often used by humans as a boundary plant for its impenetrable thorns and poisonous leaves that cause painful blisters on human skin.virid
• Kas-fruitplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigKas-fruit
  
  Kas-fruit is the red or yellow fruit of the kasflower, a perennial flowering plant or bush believed to be native to Anrel.
  
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  It is found growing throughout the Mainland, particularly in the wilder regions of viridmagic
• Limetaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLimeta
  
  The limeta is a virid tree which grows in the tropical regions, particularly in northern and coastal Anásthias. The fruits are round with dark green leathery skin and distinctive red flesh. They are one of the few virid fruits grown for human consumption, havin a sweet and distinctively acrid taste. virid
• Merrowplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigMerrow
  
  The merrow is a fruit found in temperate regions of human habitation throughout the civilised world. Merrow trees are part of the green kingdom, and are a diverse family with hundreds of varieties from small semi-wild varieties to large black, red or orange fruit.
  
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• Oilseedplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOilseed
  
  Oilseed is the seed of the oilbush. It is cultivated to produce seed oil, which can be consumed as food, but is mainly refined as a fuel for lamps and machinery.
  
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  The oilbush is a hardy green plant that flourishes in tropical and equatorial parts of AnásthiasHarthera
• Orrisplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrris
  
  Orris is a grassy green plant with characteristic green-gold leaves and seeds. Orris is common grain food, eaten throughout Anásthias.
  
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  Orris grows in well in a variety of soils, from well-drained temperate to marshy areas, the amount of available moisture determining the size of the crop. It is moderately tolerant to salt, so is often a staple of peoples living in coastal areas subject to
• Pelchekplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigPelchek
  
  Pelchek (also pelseq) is a virid plant which yields a sharp citric spice particularly favoured in Hartheran cuisine.
  
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  Pelchek is a parasitic plant found in stands of older virid jungle. Its seed pods are small, multi-lobed and a purple-red colour. When eaten by foraging animals, the pod is digested, while the small hard seeds are passed out as dung which helps the seedlings germinate and grow. virid
• Perianplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigPerian
  
  Perian trees are a variety of slender flowering virid tree, found throughout the tropics.
  
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  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.
• Peupraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigPeupra
  
  Peupra [peh-ERR-pra] is a deep purple-blue dye, obtained from the marsh peurpra, a virid plant native to marshy areas of western Munatan. Historically it grew in abundance in the swamps surrounding the city of Nepor, and was a famous export of that city.
  
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• Pirpounkplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigPirpounk
  
  The pirpounk is a variety of virid bush native to dry or semi-arid habitats, particularly in the desert plains of central and eastern Anásthias.
  
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  It is related to the balbal with a similarly bulbous root and a long tapering trunk, with an abundance of long, fur-like fronds growing from the top which sway in the breeze. These fronds serve several purposes. Firstly they trap insects and other small animals, which a…
• Raintreeplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigRaintree
  
  The raintree is a variety of virid tree adapted to arid regions, found mainly in the tropical deserts and plains of Anásthias.
  
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  Raintrees have a scaly white or dun-coloured skin, with numerous up-pointing limbs. They cope with arid conditions by growing fine, hair-like air roots from their branches. These normally lay flat, giving the limbs a hairy appearance. In the cool hours before dawn they become erect, catch…
• Ream mossplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigReam moss
  
  Ream mosses are a family of green plants and lichens which thrive in the boundary between green and virid ecosystems. The boundary between biomes is called the “burn zone” due to the red and yellow colour of lichens which colonise the area.
  
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• Shaddockplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigShaddock
  
  The shaddock (also shaduq, sjaduk) is a large fleshy, juicy fruit, yellow or red in colour, eaten whole or squeezed for its juice. Shaduq are intensively grown in the region of Remel and other parts of central Ororr.
  
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• Simmonyplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSimmony
  
  Simmony [SIM-on-nee] is a bush native to the Eastern Isles, whose stems are a spice valued for its warm, piquant flavour.
  
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  Simmony bushes are virid plants which flourish on the dry seaward slopes of the island of Sfize. Simmony was one of the first important exports from the islands, hence the word
• Spicesplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSpices
  
  Spices are condiments derived from the fruits, seeds and roots of virid plants. Most have a pungent or acrid flavour, and most are toxic if eaten in large quantities, but a pinch of them can add depth of flavour or piquancy to green foodstuffs. Condiments derived from virid
• Sporplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigSpor
  
  Spor are the single-celled reproductive units of virid plants, distinct from seeds or spores found in the green kingdom. Most spor are airborne, release from spor-pods, the fruiting bodies of virid plants. Many spor are motile with rudimentary flagella, either fertilising mature plants, or randomly bonding with the spor of other plants and settling to make a new plant seedling.viridviridvirid
• Thornbrushplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigThornbrush
  
  Thornbrush is a virid shrub found in the drier parts of Anásthias. 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 viridviridvirid
• Tidaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigTida
  
  Tida [TEE-da], sometimes called tida-pepper, is a spice common in Ororran cuisine and used as a condiment throughout Anásthias.
  
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  Tida is the seed kernel of the tida fern, a virid plant which flourishes in humid, shady areas. The ferns produce fruiting pods which grow tightly wound and unfurl as they mature, opening and releasing their airborne
• Tutumplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigTutum
  
  Tutum is a green 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 greenviridviridviridviridviridvirid
• Veilsporplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVeilspor
  
  Veilspor is a type of virid decompositional mould which covers dead and dying organisms in a cobweb-like veil. It is often seen in virid forests surrounding fallen trees, dead branches and sickly vegetation. It is sometimes found in poorly maintained human dwellings, particularly in basements and dark abandoned rooms. If left untreated it slowly engulfs whole buildings.virid
• Vinesplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVines
  
  Vines commonly refers to prune vines, a family of green climbing fruits bearing sweet fruits that turn from green through red, purple and black as they ripen.
  
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  Prune vines grow best in temperate sunny climates with well draining soil. They are often cultivated on sharp or stony soils where other crops cannot grow.
• Virid scrublandplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid scrubland
  
  Virid scrubland is a region where low-growing virid vegetation is the predominant life. Scrubland is often the result of thin poor soils and low rainfall. It can also be an intermediate landscape in areas destroyed by fire.
  
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• Virispurgeplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirispurge
  
  Virispurges are a family of virid plants found in hot and dry climates through Helevos. They have adaptations similar to green kingdom euphorbias, and are often called cacti though they are entirely unrelated to similar green plants.
  
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• Zinobebplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigZinobeb
  
  Zinobeb, from the Essep sjinnobeb, is a virid plant valued for the bittersweet aromatic spice procured from drying and grinding its stems and seed pods.
  
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  Zinobeb is characteristic of central and west Ororran cuisine, where it is rubbed into meat as a marinade or before slow roasting, but also in the upland cuisine of
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• Welcome to Helevosplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigWelcome to Helevos
  
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  Helevos is a fantasy world of magic and science, divided by two incompatible biologies: the Green Kingdom of humans, trees, grasses, crops and red-blooded animals, and the Virid Kingdom of toxic jungles, poisonous plants, terrifying creatures and airborne infections.
  
  Over thousands of years humans have forged the hundred OrorrOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorrlanguagelanguage
• Narcoticsplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigNarcotics
  
  Narcotics are chemical preparations or natural products from either green herbs or virid flora, consumed by humans for their psychotropic, euphoric or stimulant properties.
  
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