In this thread I will be posting descriptions of the many plants I have made, when I have time. I have so many I have sometimes given up trying to write them all down. Here are the first of them.



Small hollow cones made of a thin, transparent film, roughly 1 1/2 cm high and 1/2 cm wide at the base, or smaller. They grow in dense patches on the bark of certain rain forest trees all year. sometimes they are clouded with a misty gray color. They can be pressed flat, and even scraped, and they will refill with air.

Another variation is like a honeycomb, about 1/2 cm tall, with cells that have domed caps.



A plant that grows entirely underground. Roughly globular in shape, with a surface warped like a potato. It is covered in scales, which are like the wrinkles in an elephants hide, and its texture is like impenetrable leather. It is crocodile brown in color. It sends out a massive amount of fine roots, and the most massive ones sometimes put out huge tree roots. They reproduce by growing out of a new center at the end of a very long, thread like root.
These kinds of plants can make the ground rise up into a hill. There are other kinds with scales like the compound eyes of an insect.



An evergreen scale leaved tree that bears a fruit that looks like a pair of pale green leaves.

Another evergreen scale leaved tree, perhaps the same kind, that bears tiny pink and purple flowers at the ends of long, almost wire thin stalks.



Sorry if this post seems rather dull.
I decided to post parallel threads in Geography and Flora and my Sub-forum for Iniel.

Not dull at all. I enjoyed reading it. Have you named all of these as well?

Great ideas, Tsahraf! I like them! What do they do? Have you named them?

Strangely I make up names and things separately. I will even make up a name and attach a meaning to it more often than I will make up a thing and attach a name to it.

The first would be called imerben. The subterranean plant would be called lodhlohs, and the second kind of subterranean plant, the one that is like a compound eye, would be called gizhas, and agnoshia.

I like them! Keep it up!

I've been known to do that quite a few times myself, so perhaps it's not that strange.

I love the names.

One more question about them: do they have any beneficial or harmful properties?

No! They have no beneficial or harmful properties! They have no properties at all!

Actually I think that the leaf-seeds and flowers of the evergreen would make a sweet tea, piny, but mellow and not spicy. I forgot to name the evergreen last time; it is called meneth.

The lodhlohs would cause feelings of indefinable dismay and heaviness if it was eaten (boiled, no one would be able to do more than dent it if it was raw, or baked). The agnoshia is probably neutral, and would taste bitter.

The imerben would be hard to gather. Unless you took the bark as well. You would only be able to make a bland, woody tasting tea, though perhaps soothing.

Haha. I suppose it did sound dumb when phrased that way...

Not at all! "What are their beneficial or harmful properties?" is what you meant of course. You were funny, and I reciprocated.

Still, I should pay better attention when posting. *laughs* Though it was funny...

So what sort of healing herbs do you create? What about poisonous plants?

I have not thought as much about diseases and cures as I have about the actual looks of the plant, and its habitat. Here is a harmful plant though. You need not read about it if it is too horrifying.


The ecioc, the archer thistle, has long, thick, serrated, black leaves frosted with needles. The whole plant is black, and it bears flowers, like thistle flowers, between the serrations of its leaves. The flowers are red in the center, fading to pink, and then to white around the edges. A single seed develops in a pocket where the flower drops off.

Around the mouth of this pocket are many white sensory hairs. These sense body heat, and when a man or beast comes near enough, the pocket shoots the seed, which is black, and sharp, into the flesh of the man or beast. Poisons in the skin of the seed cause the wound to close and become numb, and a capsule of hardened flesh to form around the seed.

After a long while, as long as three months or a year and a half, the seeds release poisons that cause the victim convulse violently, and thirst, and soon, to die. The seeds often sprout dark, barbed sprouts even before the victim has died.

It grows in sandy soil among scattered trees in mildly hot, dry climes. It can grow to nearly waist high.

Wow. Is there any way to get rid of the seed before it kills its host?

Whoa... *loves this one*

I would also like to know if there is any way to save the victim.

*gets chills *

Another question! Would there be any way to use this plant as a weapon? For example: could you subtract the poison without being harmed yourself and apply it to swords, arrowheads, or darts? Would it cause enough damage in a short amount of time if you liberally coated said weapon with it? What if you took the poison and forced someone to ingest it? How fatal would that be?

*realizes how disturbing those questions were*

Probably not. It would take too much work to extract it. It is not only time released but time produced, triggered by the seed being ready to sprout.



If you find out in time you can cut them out. Unless you are very clumsy, this would result in no more than a flesh wound, which may eventually heal. You realize that the main victim is animals, since people know about it and avoid it.

Oh, okay. That makes sense. Do these plants grow thickly or do they just grow in ones and twos?


We authors do a lot of disturbing things, just for the sake of our books, don't we?

Yes, it appears that we do.

All part of the writing process.

Makes sense.