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#1 KingThorvar Sep 30, 2007 18:49:00	I'm looking for some ideas on types of vegetation on Athas and possible uses including actual names for the plant... anyone have anything like that already started? Thanks!
#2 zombiegleemax Sep 30, 2007 19:16:51	there are cactus that stick needled like vines into those close enough to be attacked. there are sunflowers that, do something, i forget. bloodvines (blooddrinking vines that wrap around someone and suck them dry. brambleweeds, thorny brush like vinebrush. lots of differant kinda of plant life, lots of it is dangerous. im sure someone else can post more ideas with a bit better descriptions.
#3 phoenix_m Sep 30, 2007 20:49:37	Edible or not? I have a partial list, based on information found here, for both - I'm sure there is some overlap and holes.
#4 megido_dup Sep 30, 2007 21:38:52	This is why I love DarkSun. The plant predators can be as if not more aggressive than the animal predators.
#5 KingThorvar Sep 30, 2007 21:56:48	I'm interested in both types, but I'm focusing mainly on the types that can be used by PC's and NPC's in the campaign. For instance, a type of cactus that the heroes could find that may offer some type of sustenance or perhaps what types could be found in an aristocrats orchard. Mostly for roleplaying and atmosphere purposes!
#6 brun01 Oct 01, 2007 7:40:38	There will be a section on Athasian Emporium that discusses a little bit better the Athasian vegetation...
#7 dunsel Oct 01, 2007 9:13:36	Wasn't there a netbook which has copius amounts of flora and fauna? Sorry, but I do not have the time to search for it right now but it should be fairly easy to find with google.
#8 Grummore Oct 01, 2007 9:29:33	A long long time ago in a galaxy, Teos Abadia and Gerard Lewis (two of the greatest DS fan) who now are retired from DS, created a document about the Athasian Ecology. It's extremely great for those new DS fan around here. A MUST read : http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/2549/ecocolor.pdf
#9 xlorepdarkhelm_dup Oct 01, 2007 18:15:53	Someone on this forum had compiled a list of foods for Athas. I think that you can find it in the forum archive post stickied at the top of this forum.
#10 phoenix_m Oct 01, 2007 18:36:34	Or someone could just make it easy: I'd like to thank who ever first typed this up in the past - but I haven't found the thread again... Non-food plant live (with no CR) Ashbrush Tart smelling ashbrush surrounds Silver Springs. (Amber Enchantress 104) The bark of ashbrush can be used to darken one’s skin. (Amber Enchantress 196) Brittlebush There are delicate clumps of white brittlebush. (Verdant Passage 121) Broomgrass / Broompipe Broomgrass is a silver-green grass. (Amber Enchantress 296) Broompipe grows in clumps. (Amber Enchantress 320) Broompipe grows in cones of silver. It grows in verdant areas and is eaten by erdlus. (Amber Enchantress 280) Burgrass (Verdant Passage 7) Burgrass is a narrow-leaved green herbage that is grown as lawns, used as pasture for grazing animals, and cut and dried as hay. Cane grass Cane grass has black and gold stalks. (Verdant Passage 57) Chiffon Tree Chiffon trees surround an around oasis. (Verdant Passage 57, 70) Chiffon trees have puffy, yellow crowns and green blossoms with a honey scent. (Crimson Legion 193) Chiffon trees billowing around an oasis. (Amber Enchantress 256) Cloudbrush Yellow cloudbrush grew on a hillside near Nibenay. (Amber Enchantress 120) Conifer tree In the Forest Ridge there are indigo-needled conifers, with red segmented trunks. (Verdant Passage 255) Fungus - Yellow Thickets of spongy yellow fungus grew around an oasis. (Amber Enchantress 256) Goldentip Silvery fans of goldentip grow in sandstone hills and badlands. (Crimson Legion 52) Apparently only the tips are golden. (Amber Enchantress 332) Grass – General Sword-length blades of grass grew near an oasis. Kanks prefer to eat this grass. (Amber Enchantress 255) Ground holly (Verdant Passage 7) Silvery tuffs of ground holly grow in rocky badlands. (Crimson Legion 155) Groundstar Groundstar is pink. (Crimson Legion 140) Gum Arabic Gum Arabic is a magical component. (Verdant Passage 47) Gum Arabic comes from the acacia tree. It is edible as a candy. Also used in watercolor paints, as a cosmetic, and an adhesive. Henna root Henna root can be used as a red hair dye. (Amber Enchantress 196) Hornbushes (Verdant Passage 34) Kohl Black kohl is used as eye makeup. (Amber Enchantress 196) Milkweed Milkweed grows into a stem. (Amber Enchantress 320) The milk weed plant has ivory blossoms. It grows in verdant areas and is eaten by erdlus. (Amber Enchantress 280) Moss Moss grows in the rocky badlands. (Crimson Legion 135) Moss – Burgundy moss (Crimson Legion 193) Myrrh tree (Amber Enchantress 296) Needlebush (Verdant Passage 34) Rock Holly Boulder-sized clumps of rock holly grow outside Nibenay. (Amber Enchantress 323) Rockstem Rockstem is a leafless, hard-skinned plant that did not grow as much as accumulate in one place over centuries forming fantastic twisted shapes. Those around the Asticles plantation formed waist high formations. It is very brittle and some form coppery fan shapes. (Verdant Passage 231) Sandgrass Sandgrass is silver. (Amber Enchantress 323) Silvernthorn Sadira uses silverthorn blossoms for perfume. (Amber Enchantress 5) Smokebush Smoke bush is golden colored. (Verdant Passage 7). Also called smoketree. (Verdant Passage 34) Smokebrush is unusual, plume- like, with fruiting panicles. Spikeball There are green globes of tumbling spikeballs. (Verdant Passage 121) Spikeballs that are purple grow in sandstone hills and badlands. (Crimson Legion 52) (Amber Enchantress 332) Spinifex Spinifex bushes grow in scrublands tall enough for a halfling to hide in it. (Amber Enchantress 61) Tamarisk The tamarisk is a bushy tree. (Verdant Passage 7) It is called tamarix in Wikipedia. It is a catclaw trees, spindly like a cactus. Tarbush Tarbush grows into barbed thickets of amber. (Crimson Legion 140) Thornstem The tall wispy barren stalks of ruby thornstem wave in the wind. (Verdant Passage 121) Tinchweed Tinchweed smells sweet when cropped. Inix like to graze on it. (Amber Enchantress 60) Tortoise bush Tortoise bushes are brown tinged bushes. (Amber Enchantress 296) Tree – Unknown In the Forest Ridge were smaller trees with large, white-barked trunks shaped like a ball. From the top of the globes rise a spray of huge fronds covered with heart-shaped leaves. (Verdant Passage 255) Vines – Unknown Vines with aromatic blossoms were grown in the Shom emporium in Nibenay. (Amber Enchantress 196) Whip grass The sounds of the creaking canes of black-jointed whip grass can be heard at a desert oasis. (Verdant Passage 57) Apparently another species is golden. (Verdant Passage 70) Yata buds The tangy oil of fresh yata buds are use to coat bodies before wrestling. (Amber Enchantress 235) Zaal tree Zaal trees have barren trunks and fanlike crowns. They grow around an oasis where their large fronds wave in the breeze. (Crimson Legion 116)
#11 KingThorvar Oct 01, 2007 18:46:57	Fantastic! You've all been very helpful. Thank you.
#12 Band2 Oct 02, 2007 10:17:24	Someone on this forum had compiled a list of foods for Athas. I think that you can find it in the forum archive post stickied at the top of this forum. As xlorepdarkhelm said, the link can be found in the forum archive post at the top of the forum. But here is the link to the original thread: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=582970