Potato-like roots as big as a frying pan grow almost everywhere there is grass. Alongside it is often bright pink tubular growths that have the texture of a carrot but taste like a tomato. Berries are hit and miss around here so eat them with caution. There are some baby-blue ones that are good as well as some speckled yellow ones. Large, red berries that look like overgrown cherries also hang from bushes around town and in the forest. Rumor has it that overripe ones produce an intoxicating effect on most people not unlike being drunk. Taste those with caution.
- Field Guide to the Agra System, Author Unknown
Acerberry
Description: Bushes covered in raspberry-like compound berries. At first taste they are more bitter than raspberries, but still the right combination of tart and that to create a good possible preserve or even pies. These fruits are rich in vitamin c and serve as a very good way to get your vitamins. Berries are only available in the spring and summer. In the fall the leaves grow sharp in scent, and can serve as a seasoning that parallels the use of bay leaves.
Common Locations: Greenhouse of Sh'Ka, outside the Temba Greenhouse entrances
Notes: Serve as a wonderful digestive aid and can be mixed into a soothing tea for sore throats
Description: Looking very similar in shape to a peach, and Achep berry is pink in color with a bright blue tip. If the tip is not blue that indicates it is not ripe and will be very sour upon biting into it.
Common Locations: In deeply forested areas
Notes: Edible by humans or other creatures and have been known to have some ability in antidotes to toxins and poisons.
Baconroom
Description: A tan mushroom with a vaguely honey-comb like structure, like a morel was spruced up by an industrious bee, tastes JUST like cooked bacon. They can be dried and preserved, keeping for many months, and when cooked from this dried state, actually gain a consistency not unlike cooked bacon as well, though it never gets very crispy.
Common Locations: Can be found in the lower level of the Temba greenhouse, in mushroom growing boxes
Notes: Good for protein, a reasonable meat substitute, grows quickly.
Big Cherries (AKA Red Fruit)
Description: The red fruit that looks like a giant cherry. Can be juiced and from there distilled into a liqour that will keep almost indefinitely. The fruit themselves can be dried as well, which seems to reduce their potency.
Common Locations: Originally found at the Whale Comb party. Can be found growing in the Temba greenhouse as well as out in the forest around Temba.
Notes: A Red-Fruit juice dispensor is available on the Flygood, but will not turn on if the machine is used by someone younger than fifteen.
Blood Vine
Description: A bramble-like vine colored vividly scarlet. The vines are not often thicker than a human finger, but are covered with a scattering of white spines. These spines are most common around clusters of dark red berries the same shade as pomegranate seeds. The berries, if consumed, taste like blood. Because they are filled with such. The white spines are actually hollow needles. The plant draws nutrients from the host plant they twine amid, but also from small animals that become caught upon their spines. These nutrients are then stored in the berries for lean times when they can not draw as much food from their host plant. Larger creatures (including people) can likely win their way free of the spines, but not without losing some blood to the drain caused by capillary action within the plant itself.
Common Locations: Growing in much of outdoor Sh'Ka, always tangled in with other spined or thorned berry and fruit bushes. Can be hard to see in the shadows cast by the plant it tangles with.
Notes:Warning! Any person or creature the size of at least a medium sized dog should be able to struggle free from this plant, though they may find themselves a bit weakened after if it takes a while to get free. Blood loss isn't a fun thing. The wounds from the needles will heal quickly if the needles are removed. These vines are easily avoided if one moves about carefully when dealing with berry-bushes. The blood-berries are also harvestable and will store indefinitely if the skin is not ruptured, though how is a very good question.
Bubble-Olives
Description: A tree roughly the size and shape of an olive tree that produces magenta, olive-like fruits in an abundance. These can be harvested by either picking or by shaking the trees to dislodge them. The fruits taste of strawberry banana kiwi smoothies. The fruit are actually chewie like bubblegum and one can blow bubbles with them. Continued chewing of the gum actually serves to break down the fruit enough for them to be swallowed and actually serve as food at that point. Is not sticky enough to stick to surfaces.
Common Locations: Sh'Ka Greenhouse, Soon to be transplanted to Temba Greenhouse
Notes: Consuming bubble-olives will induce a sense of giddiness. A single olive will not have this affect lingering, but as one continues to consume them, the giddiness will continue to linger
Carronoir
Description: A tall, almost tree-like plant, with clusters of vegetables growing along the whole of the stem. The stem is a deep forest green. The vegetables themselves resemble miniature pumpkins, are about the size of a tomato, and are more of a deep purple color. They taste similar to carrots. The strangest quality of this plant, is however its leaves: large, glossy black, and almost leather-like. Tough and hard to cut, these leaves can be used in the creation of many things. When the leaves start to die after being cut from the plant, they shrink a little, become harder, more like hollow, slightly flexible wood. It takes years for one of these harvested leaves to fully shrivel away. Unless one is very strong, it's near impossible to get the leaves off the plant by tugging or trying to tear them away. One would need something to cut them off with. They vegetables themselves come off more easily than the leaves, so trying to yank the leaves off may result in getting beaned in the head by vegetables that are dense enough to hurt when they fall from far up. Vegetables from this can be stored and are edible for several months without processing.
Common Locations: Can be found in the Temba Greenhouse.
Notes: If the vegetables from this plant are consumed raw they are somewhat bitter and may end in a stomach ache. Caution should be taken when removing vegetables or attempting to tear leaves off of as too much force can lead to a minor rain of hard vegetables.
Chicken Daisies
Description: A weed-like plant that grows in large clumps in the outdoors of Temba. The plants have small, soft yellow, daisy like flowers along the stalks. They grow back quickly if pulled out or harvested, and actually share a root system that spreads widely over a large area. Can be dried and develop a slight sage aftertaste if dried.
Common Locations: Originally found at the Whale Comb party, but can be found growing in the wild just about anywhere around Temba.
Notes:Warning! Anyone consuming these will have a sudden burst of energy that will have them running as if chased. This will last a period of time related to how many were consumed or until the person who ate them so fatigued that they fall over (or they become injured and unable to flee.) Dried flowers and chopped stems grant a lower burst of energy and thus are less dangerous.
Crunchy Persimmon
Description: A fruit the size and color of a fuyu persimmon, but with the texture and flavor of a cucumber. Do not preserve well, but are very tasty fresh. The tree produces fruit all year round, save in the winter, though they can be tapped for a natural syrup like maple trees from earth. The syrup is a natural antiseptic.
Common Locations: Found in the Temba Greenhouse, but there is also a tree near the power plant
Notes: Very refreshing, but not a lot of flavor. Would be a good hydrating snack on a long walk.
Cumato
Description: Scarlet and shaped and marked like a cucumber that grows on vines. Internally it has more or less the structure of a tomato, and tastes like one seasoned with oregano. Great base for sauces. High in starch for mysterious reasons. Does not preserve well with dehydration, but theoretically could be canned and preserved for sauces.
Common Locations: Upper levels of the Temba Greenhouse
Notes: Pronounced 'Cue-Ma-Toe' Get your heads out of the gutter
Description: Large leaves, evocative of lotus leaves, that have a cup-like structure, and strong, fibrous structure that allows it to maintain shape. Great for carrying.
Can be found in the Tropical Area of
Common Locations: Can be found in the Tropical Area of the Temba Greenhouse.
Notes: There may be other useful parts of this plant, but they have not been explored yet.
Cyananas
Description: Vaguely banana-like fruits of a cyan color. The peel is edible and a very good source of fiber. The insides are soft like Earth bananas though taste vaguely of dill pickles infused with lime. They grow on trees at the end of long runners and come in large clumps much like bananas do.
Common Locations:Can be found in the Upper Levels of the Temba Greenhouse.
Notes: It is possible to dehydrate these like one could with banana chips. The process not only enhances the lime flavor, but concentrates sugars, making them a sweet treat.
Description: A mint-like plant with light red / pinkish bristle flowers. Its leaves and flowers are always warm to the touch.
Common Locations: Along the edges of the Beach.
Notes: With the Agriculture datapoint, can be be used to make a topical salve that temporarily keeps a person warm even when exposed to cold temperatures.
Description: Bushes that grow up to four feet high with long, dark green leaves. If the leaves are bruised in any way they give off a faint crisp scent that can best be described as the smell of clean ice glazing over pine needles. In early spring the bushes put out clusters of white berries that are not only highly edible, but very delicious. No one can quite agree on the flavor, other than it seems most commonly to be compared to citrus fruit with an edge of strawberry or perhaps guava?
Common Locations: Around the ruins near the Temba Greenhouse where Funfronds are occasionally seen and near the mouth of the Temba Mine, originally from the plains to the north of Temba.
Notes: These berries store very well, either by drying or being turned into jams.
Description: The plant itself is a leafy bush, covered in clusters of dime-sized berries that are maroon and pink. The berries are extremely sweet, but also tart, and the juice and pulp becomes very sticky if exposed to the air for too long.
Common Locations: Can be found in the Mid Levels of the Temba Greenhouse.
Notes: It is possible to create a natural glue from the juice and pulp if they are left out in the air too long. This can be stored well in containers lined with pieces of cup leaves.
Holdfast Vines
Description: At first glimpse the plant looks to be like a willow tree that only reaches about four feet in height. The 'trunk' looks like mahogany. It isn't until something brushes against the vines that serve as leaves cascading down from it. Once that happens the vines reach out to wrap around whatever touched them, if still in range. This is a defensive mechanism, meant to encourage animals not to try and eat them. Which works, because they do not taste good. The vines, if theoretically harvested, can have the material inside scraped out and used as a base for soap.
Common Locations: Sh'Ka Greenhouse
Notes:Warning! holdfast Vines are strong, and do not like to let go. It will take something sharp, or someone with strength, to break them. But don't worry, they relax at night, so you'll eventually get free.
Description: A flower that looks much like a bright blue snowbells. In darkness, the blue flowers glow.
Common Locations: The forests around Temba - particularly in small glades and meadows. These flowers always seem to grow somewhere a little hidden from view.
Notes: With the Agriculture datapoint, can be be used to make a silencing tonic. (The datapoint only provides the name - once made, the tonic will turn out to have a temporarily paralytic effect on the vocal chords).
Description: A bright yellow mushroom, that has an unusual tendency to gather static energy. Touching the stalk will often cause a mild jolt - but the cap is insulated.
Common Locations: Around Sh'ka, typically at the base of trees.
Notes: With the Agriculture datapoint, can be be used to make a topical salve that gives a person temporary resistance to the effects of electricity.
Description: Similar to a dragon fruit tree, it looks almost cactus like. In a few years it will be mature enough to grow Koyo fruit. Koyo fruit are blue, and taste like a mix between a dragon fruit and mango with a large pit.
Common Locations: Originally native to Yavin 4, Poe obtained some Koyo fruit while on Coruscant, and together with the help of Tommy they were able to germinate the pits and plant them inside the Temba greenhouse.
Description: The husk of the fruit requires a bit of effort to crack, but the inside is filled with fleshy seed pods that taste like something between a mango and a peach. The seeds are a glossy, almost iridescent black. The husks, if carefully cut into, can be used as reasonable containers when hollowed out.
Common Locations: Can be found in the Temba Greenhouse.
Description: Reedy grasses that grow to about three feet high, with crimson stalks and in the summer form tufts of white that are their seeds. These plants are suddenly found in a small cluster around the reduced limits of the flood plain, and started to spread into the shallows since then. As a fast growing reed, they can easily be harvested regularly without harming the local ecology.
Common Locations: Around the Temba Flood Plain, the Great Western Marsh.
Notes: True to their name, the stalks produce a white sap that is relatively thin, rich in calcium and Vitamin D, and actually serves as a great natural milk substitute.
Description: Naro Berries look a lot like over grown blueberries about the size of a child's fist, resembling the popular Oran berries found in the pokemon World except they're decorated with red little circles and might be classified as a pit fruit with one large seed in the center. The seed is not edible. It tastes sweet.
Common Locations: On the edge of forested areas
Notes: Berries of these trees provide an energy boost and seem to be positive for recovery from wounds
Description: A very tall plant with a spiky stem and leaves, the pinkish flower petals have a bread-like texture and sweet taste, like a breakfast pastry. Each flower is roughly the size of a silver dollar pancake.
Common Locations: Can be found in the Temba Greenhouse, the "desert" area.
Notes: If harvested carefully, you can get about a dozen breakfast pastry petals from the greenhouse every day. They do not last long after harvesting, breaking down after about two days.
Description: A small leafy plant with dark purple flowers. They grow unusually quickly, often suddenly appearing fully grown before anyone notices they're there.
Common Locations: Sh'ka, embedded into cracks in the walls of the stone buildings
Notes: With the Agriculture datapoint, can be be used to make an elixir that temporarily makes a person move faster.
Description: The name is a portmanteau of "rose cipolla", the Italian for "pink onion". The plant itself is a tuber, characterized by hollow brown stalks that almost resemble chives in size and structure. When dug up, the bulbs are small, never any bigger than an inch around, and bright neon pink. The bulbs are edible, and taste like a cross between garlic and onions. Eating one raw will give you the hiccups for approximately one hour. Severity of the hiccups varies by individual. The stalks are too bitter for eating, but tough and easily woven.
Common Locations: Can be found in the area of Blue-16 are of Temba, along where the tubes connect the buildings.
Notes: Eating one raw will give you the hiccups for approximately one hour. Severity of the hiccups varies by individual.
Spitpod
Description: A vine like many others that hang from the trees in Sh'Ka. The color is a dark cool green, and it feels sticky to the touch. Occasionally long pods of beans can be found on the vine. These pods are sensitive to touch and are prone to de-gas suddenly if brushed against, exuding a fine blue vapor that stains anything nearby and won't wash off for at least a week
Common Locations: Sh'Ka, soon to be transplanted to the Temba Greenhouse
Notes: Both the pods and the vine can be used to make natural dyes that can be used on glownie wool and spidersilk. The colors range from the natural blue of the pod's vapors to a deep purple or even a sort of red-cabbage color, depending on how the dye is prepared (pH value, etc.) The pods are not edible, but the beans inside can be ground into a paste that has a mild analgesic effect, mostly useful topically.
Sponge Cake
Description: Almost too literal here. A naturally occurring sponge-like plant that comes in a variety of colors ranging from pink through violet. It is clearly a filter feeding structure, and porous like Earth sponges. However it does not have internal silica crystals to give it structure, but one that is created through an internal chemical reaction that results in something that, when put in the mouth, has the mouth feel of a moist cake. The flavor seems to vary by color, but all have an undercurrent of vanilla and honey, and cannot help but be compared to cakes.
Common Locations: Can be found in the ocean, approximately five to fifteen feet beyond the low tide line, often clinging to rock faces.
Notes: Cannot be preserved without being kept wept. Could be kept up to a week if submerge
Description: A large flower that blooms close to the ground among a collection of vines. It's a rusted-red color with pearlescent white spots. It smells like pine trees and is not edible. The leaves, however, can be dried and smoked as a relaxant. Smoke too much, however, and you'll simply pass out.
Common Locations: Can be found inside the Temba transportation center
Notes: A very difficult plant to cultivate in a greenhouse setting as the vines spread out to parasite onto other plants stealing nutrients from them to grow to it's large side. Must be carefully watched and maintained.
Tigertuber
Description: A large tuber with pale brown skin marked with grayish stripes like a tiger's marks. Texture-wise and interior color are like a potato, but with the stripes continuing inside in irregular patterns, and at harvestable size is a few pounds and almost the size of a human head. In terms of taste it is like a potato, but heavily umami at the same time think MSG or savory foods
Common Locations: Can be found in the Lower Level of the Temba Greenhouse in root vegetable growing boxes.
Notes: Grows in a manner similar to potatoes, where one should cut off the eyes and a bit of the tuber itself and replant them to sprout new plants. Does not grow in clusters but rather into individual large tubers.
Disk Rip Shin: A bramble-like vine colored vividly scarlet. The vines are not often thicker than a human finger, but are covered with a scattering of white spines. These spines are most common around clusters of dark red berries the same shade as pomegranate seeds. The berries, if consumed, taste like blood. Because they are filled with such. The white spines are actually hollow needles. The plant draws nutrients from the host plant they twine amid, but also from small animals that become caught upon their spines. These nutrients are then stored in the berries for lean times when they can not draw as much food from their host plant. Larger creatures (including people) can likely win their way free of the spines, but not without losing some blood to the drain caused by capillary action within the plant itself.
Place: Growing in much of outdoor Not-Temba, always tangled in with other spined or thorned berry and fruit bushes. Can be hard to see in the shadows cast by the plant it tangles with.
Pick Sure: N/A
A Dish An Ill Note: Any person or creature the size of at least a medium sized dog should be able to struggle free from this plant, though they may find themselves a bit weakened after if it takes a while to get free. Blood loss isn't a fun thing. The wounds from the needles will heal quickly if the needles are removed. These vines are easily avoided if one moves about carefully when dealing with berry-bushes. The blood-berries are also harvestable and will store indefinitely if the skin is not ruptured, though how is a very good question.
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Disk Rip Shin: A bramble-like vine colored vividly scarlet. The vines are not often thicker than a human finger, but are covered with a scattering of white spines. These spines are most common around clusters of dark red berries the same shade as pomegranate seeds. The berries, if consumed, taste like blood. Because they are filled with such. The white spines are actually hollow needles. The plant draws nutrients from the host plant they twine amid, but also from small animals that become caught upon their spines. These nutrients are then stored in the berries for lean times when they can not draw as much food from their host plant. Larger creatures (including people) can likely win their way free of the spines, but not without losing some blood to the drain caused by capillary action within the plant itself.
Place: Growing in much of outdoor Not-Temba, always tangled in with other spined or thorned berry and fruit bushes. Can be hard to see in the shadows cast by the plant it tangles with.
Pick Sure: N/A
A Dish An Ill Note: Any person or creature the size of at least a medium sized dog should be able to struggle free from this plant, though they may find themselves a bit weakened after if it takes a while to get free. Blood loss isn't a fun thing. The wounds from the needles will heal quickly if the needles are removed. These vines are easily avoided if one moves about carefully when dealing with berry-bushes. The blood-berries are also harvestable and will store indefinitely if the skin is not ruptured, though how is a very good question.