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« on: 29 October 2002, 10:59:00 »

Here is a fruit that is for the farm by Nepris. It is a fruit tree. I hope this is okay with you Bard Judith and it is what you were looking for. Sorry for the delay.

MALUS

The Malus is a common coastal tree with a small sour fruit. It grows wild but is most often found on farms as a food producing crop.

APPEARANCE: The Malus is a small tree not growing more than six or seven peds high. It is a many branched tree with only a few sturdy weight bearing ones. These branches fan out in all directions giving is a rather odd circular form. What adds to this appearance is the fact that no branches grow below the first two peds of its trunk. The bark on the trunk and branches is smooth and a gray in color, which is darker around scars and blemishes. The leaves of the Malus are shaped much like the tree and a palmspan across. The top of each leaf is a dull dark green and is serrated along the edges. These edges have a reddish tinge to them. The underside of the leaf is a lighter greenish gray in color with dark red veins. The veins look like tributaries running into a central river that runs out to the stem, which is also a red in color.

Each spring the Malus produces small pink flowers with four petals and three long white stamens. These flowers cover the smaller branches in such profusion the tree appears as a pink cotton ball sitting upon a stick. The flower petals are also roughly round in shape and have an ovule. This ovule produces the fruit of this tree. They usually produce two on a split stem per flower that are a little bigger than a Silverbard. This fruit is firm with a dark yellow skin often peppered with small red dots. The flesh of the fruit is an off white, which surrounds two small flat seeds. The fruit, know as Malsapple, has itself has a strong sour taste.

HABITAT: This tree can be found mostly close to the coast of the continent of Sarvonia, from the Sharadon Forests in the south to about Eight Winds Bay in the north. I thrives is soil that is somewhat sandy and sunny areas. While it is found mostly along the coast, many orchards have sprung up in the interior as many farmers are starting to grow it as a food crop.

USES: There are many uses for the fruit of the Malus tree. Mainly the Malsapple is cooked with sugar, which mellows the sour taste, to produce jams and jellies. It is often pressed to release the juice, which is mixed with sugar to make a fruit drink. Often this juice is left to sit and it ferments into a weak alcoholic drink known as Cider. This drink is mainly drunk by farmers because of the ease in its making and because it is cheap. It can also be used in cooking adding a tart taste to what the chef is making. It must also be noted here that the villagers of Nepris mash the Malsapple and add it to Dwarven ale, which has become known as appleale. They say it damps down the strength of this ale making it more palatable to a human stomach, not to mention slowing down the effects of this strong ale. It is said that the village of Parthanul has taken to this practice too.

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Edited by: Thuja at: 10/30/02 5:43:02 pm


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« Reply #1 on: 31 October 2002, 02:23:00 »

Thuja: Great! Nice to have this on board, and a good choice of name as well - short and easily remembered.

While I'm thinking of it, though, the names Sussma and Stauna aren't really necessary or mnemonic. Could we just replace those two words with 'cider' and 'appleale' respectively?

Since both roleplayers and writers have referred to 'cider' and it's a common generic name, it would be simpler, in my opinion. We don't use special names for 'cat', 'bread', or 'road', to take other similar noun examples... and already we have a lot of newly coined names that no one will ever remember and thus will never get used or cross-referenced...sigh....

But the Malus is great, and 'malusapple' or 'mal'sapple' would be an easy way to refer to its crabby fruit

I particularly like the visual description and the details which help me 'see' the tree.

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« Reply #2 on: 31 October 2002, 03:15:00 »

Hmmm... malus means "bad" in Latin, I think. Hope there are no connections! reminds me of Snowhite!

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« Reply #3 on: 31 October 2002, 05:44:00 »

Changes made. Should be okay now I hope.

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« Reply #4 on: 01 November 2002, 13:55:00 »

Just a few typos, Thuja. I've taken the liberty to correct them here without bolding as they are things like 'it' instead of 'in', or 'tough' instead of 'through'... hope that's ok? And I've added some punctuation.

MALUS

The Malus is a common coastal tree with a small sour fruit. It grows wild but is most often found on farms as a food- producing crop.

APPEARANCE: The Malus is a small tree, not growing more than six or seven peds high. It is a many-branched tree with only a few sturdy weight-bearing ones. These branches fan out in all directions, giving it a rather odd globus form. Contributing to this appearance is the fact that no branches grow below the first two peds of its trunk. The bark on the trunk and branches is a smooth grey color, which is darker around scars and blemishes. The leaves of the Malus are shaped much like the tree itself, circular and a palmspan across. The top of each leaf is a dull dark green and is serrated along the edges. These edges have a reddish tinge to them. The underside of the leaf is a lighter greenish-gray in color with dark red veins. The veins look like tributaries running into a central river that runs out to the stem, which is also a reddish color.

Each spring the Malus produces small pink flowers with four petals and three long white stamens. These flowers cover the smaller branches in such profusion that the tree appears to be a pink cotton ball sitting upon a stick. The flower petals are also roughly round in shape and have an ovule. This ovule produces the fruit of this tree. They usually produce two on a split stem per flower that are a little bigger than a Silverbard. This fruit is firm with a dark yellow skin often peppered with small red dots. The flesh of the fruit is an off-white, which surrounds two small flat seeds. The fruit, known as Malsapple, has itself has a strong sour taste.

HABITAT: This tree can be found mostly close to the coast of the continent of Sarvonia, from the Sharadon Forests in the south to about Eight Winds Bay in the north. It thrives in soil that is somewhat sandy and prefers sunny areas. While it is found mostly along the coast, many orchards have sprung up in the interior as many farmers are starting to grow it as a food crop.

USES: There are many uses for the fruit of the Malus tree. Mainly the Malsapple is cooked with sugar, which mellows the sour taste, to produce popular jams and jellies. It is often pressed to release the juice, which is mixed with sugar to make a fruit drink. Often this juice is left to sit and it ferments into a weak alcoholic drink known as Cider. This drink is mainly drunk by farmers because of the ease in its making and because it is cheap. It can also be used in cooking adding a tart taste to what the chef is making.

It must also be noted here that the villagers of Nepris mash the Malsapple and add it to ale imported from the local Thergerim clan, and the concoction has become known as appleale. They say it damps down the strength of dwarven ale, making it more palatable to a human stomach, not to mention slowing down the effects of this strong ale. It is said that the village of Parthanul has taken to this practice too.


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Re: Malus

« Reply #5 on: 01 November 2002, 20:10:00 »

Some few notes on Reproduction perhaps, Thuja?

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Re: Malus

« Reply #6 on: 03 November 2002, 11:33:00 »

I have been gone and saw this request probably too late for the update. Sorry, I will be gone most of Sunday so can only put up the reproduction part on Monday. Hope that does not inconvenience you too much.

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« Reply #7 on: 03 November 2002, 20:45:00 »

No prob, Thuja

I'll put it up without the reprdouction part at the moment, and then add it as soon as it arrives

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