Any woody shrub or multiple-branched (trunkless) small tree, usually from one fore to three peds. “Weed trees” such as swamp willow and alder can be placed in this category.

BUSHES
(Sorted Alphabetically)

BLOODBUSH, THE
Importance. Produces red/violet dyes.
Summary. Also called "Dyers' Friend" or "Sunset Bush". Knee-high shrub, dark red twigs and leaves, black root. Inedible blue-green berries, acrid ammoniac scent. Source of the bright violet and scarlet dyes so popular in R’unor. The variation in colour is achieved with other plant acids and bases but details are kept a strict craft secret.

CANDLEBUSH, THE
Importance. Coniferous shrub with waxy berries used to make candles.
Summary. A small conifer, 1-2 peds high, graceful oval shape which strongly resembles a cypress tree or a candleflame. The wide, flat needles are a dark green, coated with an oily substance which comes off on the fingers and burns well. The inedible berries are a soft peach shade, and also full of a concentrated oil. [READ MORE]

GOLDENBELL BUSH, THE
Importance. Bush, whose leaves serve as food for deer.
Summary. The Goldenbell Bush, named for its small, golden flowers, is a rather small bush that can be found mostly in forests in mid northern Santharia as well as the southern portion of Northern Sarvonia. Though not commonly planted in gardens, many deer, such as the starbacks and the Sarvonian white deer, find their leaves delectable and rodents like the field mice feast on their seeds. [READ MORE]

IN'ILÁ, THE
Importance. Evergreen parasitic climbing shrub, though related to cloewen evergreen tree species.
Summary. The In’ilá, Styrásh: In’ilá, "climber", lit. to scale unmoving (rock/face), is an evergreen shrub, closely related to the cloewen tree. Like its wild Quallian relative a sparse, straggly, shrub, though this sub-species has a climbing habit, often found wound around the trunks of other trees and through branches. [READ MORE]

MULTLIWEED, THE
Importance. A bush producing edible Mutnuts, source of the "mut" measure.
Summary. The Mutliweed has one of the largest ranges of any other plant, found nearly on every continent and island in the world, though is is more commonly found in Northern Sarvonia. The plant produces a nut, the Mutnut, which is where the weight value of the mut (equaling 1/100 of a heb) originated from. Though the plant, which often appears as a bush, is small, it has deep roots, making it difficult to get rid of. [READ MORE]

REDBERRY BUSH, THE
Importance. A bush producing red berries, used to make ormelin and jelly.
Summary. The Redberry Bush is a common, medium-sized bush that can be found throughout most of Caelereth (with the exception of southern Nybelmar and Aeruillin. The Redberry plant got its name from its many small, tart and, more importantly, red berries. The juice is used for cooking and is suitable for seasoning stews. The juice is also one of the more important ingredients in the ormelin (orm conservation fluid). Some people also make a jelly out of the berries, which taste good on steaks and with poultry. [READ MORE]

ROSEMINT, THE
Importance. An important spice bush, also said to bring good luck.
Summary. The Rosemint is a common bush natural to the more temperate areas of Santharia. This plant comes by its name for the minty smelling leaves and beautiful flowers it produces. Rosemint is used not only for its very aromatic scent but also the fresh mint flavor it can bring to any food. The Rosemint is now very commonly found in many gardens throughout Santharia and is said to bring good luck. [READ MORE]

TANSIA BUSH, THE
Importance. Seeds used to create a sanctified oil.
Summary. The Tansia Bush is normally approximately one ped in height and a half a ped in width. Much of the width of this plant occurs at the upper half. The thick, cylindrical stalk is leafless for half its height. Then, halfway up, a profusion of thin branches stick out in a haphazard fashion. A light green multitude of small, spade shaped leaves form a thick vegetation at the head of this odd bush. The seeds, also known as Tansin seeds, are used in a long involved process which produces a holy oil. This oil is instrumental to the nobility and thus it is forbidden to harm a Tansia Bush. [READ MORE]

TEKI TREE, THE
Importance. Scrawny plant, seeds used in cloth dying.
Summary. This scrawny, yellow leafed tree grows in and around the Santharian province of Enthronia. The basic, standard structure of the Teki Tree is a skinny, pale barked trunk with maybe 6 branches sprouting out and upwards. The branches are twisted and gnarled, with yellow leaves and edible, bitter black berries hanging on the ends of them. The tree stands no more than about one ped high with a spread of a few thin, sparse branches with big black berries drooping down in the fall and late summer. Any farmers looking to make a few gold coins in the cloth dying market plant the tree in long, straight rows and harvest the berries for its pits, the deep red Teki Seed. [READ MORE]
 

TOTIT, THE
Importance. Multiuse desert plant: used to produce bread, dye, lotion.
Summary. A rough and enduring plant, the Totit is one of the few plants that survive in the harsh eastern Aeruillin deserts. Coming almost to the knee of most adult humans, standing about one half ped in height, Totit has been used by the tribes of east Aeruillin for generations for both a food source and a medication. Despite its generous numbers, the tribes have not been able to domesticate the plant or grow it in easily harvestable fields. [READ MORE]


WOMBLOSE TREE, THE
Importance. Pregnancy and labour aid.
Summary. Also known as Birthbark, Labour’s End, She-Tree. This modest tree is actually a bush or shrub, spreading from a central tussock of stump into a spray of thin, whippy limbs.  It stands about eight fores tall and prefers moist ground (often found side by side with the common willow). The trunk is mottled and the bark easily flaked off. Bark gatherers often prefer to strip the entire tree at one sitting, as they say the dosage is more consistently calculated. The bark is then soaked in a solution of oil and spices to extract the essential ingredients, and the oil given as drops on the tongue. It is commonly used for women in labour to ease pain and give short-term bursts of energy. Most midwives make their own, with a jealously-guarded proportion of spices and flavouring adjusted to personalize it, so the exact recipe is not known. The tree dies in the process of bark harvesting, but since it grows prolifically as a shrub, and can be rooted from a cutting stuck back into the moist soil, it is in no danger of being eradicated in Caelereth any time soon.