Plants and Fungi
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List of magical or unique plants and fungi shown in The Wandering Inn universe.
Plant List
(Only Named Plants)
Amentus
Trees that grows blue fruits with a thick layer of sweet, edible flesh on a hard, highly poisonous core in the center. It is processed into Amentus wine in Northern Izril and sold at great cost. It's always slightly poisonous, so simple [Detect Poison] checks fail to confirm whether it was made correctly.
Ashwheat
A type of wheat that grows in Noelictus.[1]
Birevine
Infamous plant with vines stronger than steel rope, and covered in razor-sharp thorns.[2] Grown from [Bloodseeds] magic.
Bladegrass
Fragile but sharp grass that can be weaved to make something sharp, but weak.[3] Namesake of the Woven Bladegrass tribe.
Blood Grass
Dangerous plants in the Bloodfields.
Bloodfields Shambler
Carnivorous plant-monster of the Bloodfields.[4] Likely a variety of Elementals similar to Bush Shamblers or Vastlands Shamblers.
Cloudleaf
Narcotic plant used for smoking.
Deshwood
Species of trees found on the Isle of Minos.[5]
Dreamleaf
Narcotic plant used for smoking.
Duskcarrot
Type of carrot grown in Noelictus.
Eir Kelp
Aquatic plant used to make Eir Gel, an ingredient necessary for making healing potions. It has a number of mildly poisonous spines in its unprocessed state. A majority of the world's Eir Kelp grows in a reef out by the Last Tide, on the island of Hesheit.
Elfleaf
Edible leaves that are eaten by half-Elves.[6]
Eternal Grasslands
Yellow grass that is capable of keeping water and living in the driest months.[7] It hides and is undetectable through long droughts.
Invented by the eponymous [Archmage].
Faerie Flowers
Highly magical flowers from the land of the Fae. Can be used to enhance a number of alchemical and magical mixtures, with unpredictable and double-edged results. Possess multiple 'stages' of development; at the highest known, their roots become capable of piercing Skills and distorting the very fabric of the world.
Fimie-seeds
Seeds from an unknown plant in the New Lands. They look like pale-blue tufts, are a bit sticky, and are carried by the wind.[8] They come from long swaying trees grown on cliffs, with huge fluffs of the seeds. They have little branches that group together and soft wood.[9]
Flarespot Shrooms
Edible mushrooms with glowing red spots on the caps that grow after wildfires. They're hot to the touch, enough to ignite wicker.[10]
Ghost Shrooms
Rare mushrooms with phantasmal properties. Can be used to make ethereal liquids for medicine, or ethereal coatings for arrows and the like.
Gickel
The plant used to make Telgas, the Gelatin Food (Spam Food)[11].
Glasswhistle
Exceptionally fragile plant that would actually kill itself under its own weight in time, which is how it reproduces.[12]
Glowberries
A type of edible berries.[13] Possibly the same as Sweetberries.
Goudolep
Four-foot tall Chandrarian plant. Hollow and filled with water. Shoot a jet of liquid for self-defense at anyone who approaches.[14]
Herthee
Edible stalk-like plant, with the side effects of giving a swollen, slightly irritated tongue for the next 2-6 hours.[15] Grows in the Great Plains.
Hinterthere Melons
Edible plants.[16]
Hourglass Barley
Type of barley that grows in Noelictus. It ferments and absorbs much more than usual. Used to brew Midnight Runoff.[17]
Invisible Pumpkins
Edible pumpkins that are invisible.[14]
Jumping Durians
A type of fruit.[18]
Krakk Trees
Dangerous trees with explosive bark.
Lyepeppers
Edible peppers with unhealthy or poisonous looking colouring.[15] See also: Batesian mimicry, Aposematism.
Mela’s Kiss
Very light narcotic plant from the sea that practically evaporates under a tiny bit of heat without producing any smoke.[19]
Morning Marigold
Magical variety of marigolds. One in ten thousand marigolds can turn into one from exposure to magic. They have glowing pistils that are used in Potions of Warmth and in Rhaldon's Superior Tonic of Virility, although all parts of the plant are magical.[20]
Nali-Stick
Highly sweet edible plants from Baleros. Used as a sugar-substitute, but they can be addictive.
Night Cabbage
Type of cabbage that grows in Noelictus.[17]
Nightlily
A species of black flower.
Peckle Nuts
Edible plants.[16]
Pickstriker Fungi
A fungus that grows in Liscor's dungeon. It may be the orange fungus cultivated as a major hazard for the maze, capable of locomotion.
Prelons
Sourish pale-red fruits in hairy red-brown shells.[21] Have a shelf-life of about four days without Skill or magic.[22]
Qizl beans
Grow to fantastical giant vines if given enough mana, "overnight" as the legends say.[23]
Sage’s Grass
Famous plant that naturally produces mana, and an integral component in many magical recipes. Invented by the [Sage of a Hundred Thousand Secrets], Velzi. Used to create Sage's Water and myriad other ways of infusing mana into potions and brews.
Appears as grass glowing with a faintly red, magical light. The plants become much more magical as they age.
Salamander Peppers
Also called Sally-peppers. Used as an alchemical ingredient and seasoning.[24]
Sea Oranges
A type of fruit.[18]
Sendipe Bush
???. Grown from [Bloodseeds] magic.
Silpher Grass
Herb that's dried to be smoked. Created by Palt in the Ten Years Later timeline of the Palace of Fates.[25]
Sireen Lilies
Lovely huge lilies that wail in the wind.[26] A favorite of the 18th Queen of Khelt, Xierca.
Snowcorn
Corn grown in Noelictus. It has kernals white as snow and black leaves.[27]
Snowmelon
A crop that can be grown in the winter.[28]
Spiather
Also called Grass of the Swamps, and Gaarhweed by Drakes. A long, green, stringy kelp-like plant that grows on muddy swamp floors and causes rashes on contact. Very effective at neutralizing acids, even powerful ones.[20] Used in traditional Gnollish medicine.
Su-yellat
Rare, magical Yellat varieties, that aid the body for a while.[29] Appear as thin strands of magic extracted from mashed Yellats.
Sweetberries
Edible red glowing berries.[30] Also mildly magical.
Sweetgrass Hay
Type of hay used to feed horses.[31]
Swordtrees
Tough and sharp trees.[7]
Threadvine[12]
???
Toricel Shieldplant
???. Grown from [Bloodseeds] magic.
Veil Tomatoes
Dark tomatoes grown in Noelictus. It has tough, chewy skin like a potato's.[32]
Wrapleafs
Spreads by wrapping around others to embedded its seeds in them.[33]
Watchertrees
Carnivorous trees that drain their victim's blood. Capable of locomotion under certain circumstances, but their low magic resistance makes them vulnerable to curses.
Wideleaf Lettuce
A species of lettuce.[34]
Wireweed
Can be used to make Wireweed Tobacco for smoking, which burns so slowly that 4 hours of smoking would barely take down 30% of the cigar.[35]
World Trees
Sometimes-sentient magical trees that have grown to immense heights; capable of dominating Great Forests. Only one known instance remains, the stunted and magically-drained tree of Oteslia.
Yellat
Edible plants. They can grow in almost any environment, no matter how dry, wet, salty, or barren. A staple crop of Chandrar which has saved countless lives and fed entire empires.
Can develop magical varieties - Su-yellats, giant Yellats, running Yellats, etc.
Yellow Shamblers
Parasitic plant that puppets bodies, comparable to a zombie.
Trivia
References
- ↑ Chapter 9.10 W
- ↑ Chapter 8.79
- ↑ Chapter 8.10
- ↑ Chapter 9.64 BH
- ↑ Chapter 7.47 K
- ↑ Chapter 8.17 H
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 8.78 F
- ↑ 10.02 Y
- ↑ 10.03 Y
- ↑ 10.33 MNK
- ↑ Interlude – Hectval (Pt. 3)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 8.07 L
- ↑ Chapter 6.55 K
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Chapter 7.54
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 8.30
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Chapter 8.68
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Gravesong Book One
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 8.66
- ↑ Chapter 7.06
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Chapter 9.54 C
- ↑ Interlude - Senior Guardsman Relc
- ↑ 10.13
- ↑ Chapter 7.50
- ↑ Interlude - Of Vampires and Fraerlings
- ↑ Interlude – Halfseekers (Pt. 9)
- ↑ Chapter 8.32
- ↑ Chapter 9.01
- ↑ 10.23 LMGY
- ↑ Chapter 8.37 H
- ↑ Chapter 9.03
- ↑ Chapter 9.21
- ↑ Chapter 8.50
- ↑ Chapter 7.05 P
- ↑ 10.43 – RNG (Pt. 1)
- ↑ Interlude – Brewing Sariants