index:flora:edible_flora [Wandering Star Role Play]

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===== Edible Flora =====
The  Wandering Star universe has a variety of garden edibles that have  proliferated across space due to interstellar commerce and agriculture.  These are common ones, but not the only ones a traveler, shopper, or  farmer may encounter.

==== Fruits ====
  * **Duqc'loss**  - A [[planet:lor|Lorath]] fruit best described as 'a cross between a tomato, a pitaya and cooked chilled rice, known for being a cheap opiate and easy to ferment.
  * **Pikefruit** - Blue fruit with a bumpy feel. Tasty and sweet, but numbs the tongue.
  * **Punchwood Fruit**  - An oblong fruit with stringy pulp. Tastes like being hit in the face  with a brick. A popular choice for fermenting into booze, particularly schnapps.
  * **Elrath Pearl**  - Technically considered a berry, these iridiscent fruits grow in strands and very much resemble pearls. They have a thicker skin than the average berry, but the juice inside is incredibly tangy and light. Very popular as a juice for the base of other drinks, and is used for some wines.
  * **Arrlyr'ren**  - A large violet fruit native to Lor known for its tangy-sweet flavour,  honey-like juices, and marble-like black seeds. The fruit is a mild  stimulant, and the flowers are known to contain a potent aphrodesiac nectar.
  * **Creyal** - A hypernutricious fruit native to [[society:balance|Balance]], it is known for being extremely rich in every nutrient required by human-derived life while being utterly inedible due to its flavor.

==== Vegetables ====
  * **Undersquash**  - A type of gourd commonly referred to as "if styrofoam could get a  thick skin." Fairly tasteless, but makes an excellent creamy base when  the innards are heated and mixed with water.
  * **Lomegranite**  - A vegitable composed of a crisp flesh with a thin rind. Known for its  chewy pearl-like growths scattered throughout the interior of the  vegitable. Has a subtle, refreshing flavour.
  * **Tefa**  - A leafy "green", originally native to a world with a particularly weak sun, giving it a black leaf. It tends to get brighter into greens as generations pass on certain worlds, but a freshly popped seed from gene stock produces a black leaf.
  * **Glowing Kelp** - Long trees of luminous kelp grow in weird waters. It grows en masse around [[location/sargasso|Sargasso]]'s Glowing Cove. It can be dried into dull sheets for sushi or plucked out of the ocean, washed and placed into soups - still glowing faintly.
  * **Edible Algae** - Cultivated by growers around Sargasso, various colonies of edible Algae are grown in artificial reservoirs, and in  catchments in the bay. Algae strains run the gamut of flavours and  textures from bland and neutral, to spicy and cluggy. Despite the taste,  it's packed with nutrients. A staple of soldiers for how quickly it can  be grown.

==== Grains ====
  * **Isaht** - A rolaan-grown animal feed/mushroom-grain that has grown popular as a health food. Long stringy yellow stalks boil down nicely into a pastalike tuber.
  * **Spreyt** - A common grain used for breads and pastas. It resembles peacock feathers, with the "eye" containing the actual grain.
  * **Bagvine** - A vine which grows wild naturally, sprouting dangling pods of hard seeds after flowering. The flat, round seeds can be extracted and eaten as is, or ground into nutty-tasting flour.
  * **Toothberry** - Named for its long, white, and pointy shape an inch long in total, resembling a canine tooth. Toothberries taste bitter and unappealing when fresh, but dried and lightly salted, they taste ideal. They grow similarly to peanuts.
  * **Drum Grass** - A grain-bearing grass which grows in fairy rings, similar to some forms of fungus. Large fields of drum grass appear as a tesselated series of circles from directly above, and the grass can grow up to five feet tall. The grains can be made into a hardy, filling, and vaguely shroomy-tasting flour((Consequently, this makes hardy, filling, and vaguely shroomy-tasting bread, beer, and more!)).

==== Herbs ====
This includes both magical herbs for use in spells, and mundane ones for cooking or seasoning with.

  * **Tingletap**  - A tap rooted herb popular for its ability to regrow after being  picked down to the soil, features clusters of near circular leaves, each  of which provides a surprising ammount of flavour, likened to smoked  meat. The name derives from the root of the plant which when consumed  causes a temporariy tingling sensation akin to the sensation felt when a  limb 'falls asleep' as well as wide spread goose flesh.
  * **Fell Leaf**  - A Hagblood's best friend, Fell Leaf (commonly pronounced Feleaf) is a  magical herb that has uses in most small rituals and invocations, ground, burned, ingested, and so on. It has a bitter taste with a spike of spice. The magic in Fell Leaf is very light, but it is enough of a resevoir to serve as tinder for complex spellcasting.
  * **Griproot** - The roots of the various species of wandering plants, which are able to move around by uprooting themselves and walking on their roots. In magery, the roots are dried out and powdered for alchemical use. Intact roots are known to slowly wrap themselves around nearby objects if left unattended, hence the name.
  * **Firebark** - A product derived from the bark of a thick and hardy shrub common in wastelands. The bark of these trees and shrubs is dried, threshed, and powdered into a red/brown dust with a taste similar to cinnamon, with extra spices comparible to eating a chilli. It is also a highly flammable substance, and the plant is a nuisance in areas prone to bushfires.