Here is a description of the Rapaca, or Repeca, plant.
The root was like a braid of serpents crushed lengthwise and molded into the shape of a butterfly's egg, or something between a sweet potatoe and turnip, by a clumsy hand. It was covered in patches the color of leaf litter, and the rest was a flesh yellow color, and smooth. There were multiple such tubers to a plant. The flesh of the tuber was white tainted with gray, with an almost paper thin layer of yellow near the skin. The leaves of the plant had the texture of nettle leaves, with the leaf shape of the mandrake. The leaf edges were smooth, but tender, with thin wrinkles running around the leaf just within the edges. The plants each bore a few large flowers, complicated and folded, of the orchid sort, of pink, white, yellow colors. The leaves and flowers of the plant were poisonous, but if thoroughly dried they were used as medicines in small amounts. The skins, and yellow layer under it, were poisonous, but with the skins and yellow part cut off the root was eaten like the sweet potatoe. The poison caused aching in the joints, headaches, and mild madness. The taste of the root was like the potato, but with a distant hint of citrus in a spice like sense.
I was inspired for this by a glance at a single group of loops in a patternless, beige carpet.
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