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a)
Categorization
: Flowers? Medicinal Plants?
b)
Overview
: The Undertoe Herb is a lanky plant with lobed leaves and a thin form. It most frequently sprouts near the base of trees, preferring pines and other evergreen trees. For this reason, it can most commonly be found in Santharia’s wooded areas, be they larger forests or small copses dotting the countryside. The plant has shallow roots and usually a slightly minty scent. The small berries are often used in dyes, whilst the leaves are most commonly used in the treatment of foot odour problems.
c)
Description
: The Undertoe Herb rarely grows higher than a grown man’s knee, but appears taller because of its delicate stem and apparently over-sized leaves, which grow on average to a palmspan in length. The leaves are a bright, summer-green in all seasons, even in early winter before the snow chokes them out. They are lobe-shaped, being wider at the ends that at the base where they are connected to the sturdy stem. The leaves drape a little, generally being too large to stay stiff and erect. The leaves are thin but not dry.
The Undertoe Herb generally has but one firm stalk; branches don’t often diverge from the solid stem. When they do, they are short and brief, usually diverging for the purpose of budding additional flowers when late spring is beginning to warm into summer.
The flowers of the Undertoe Herb are small and white, dainty and star-shaped. They are hardly more than a nailsbreadth or two in length, and one plant will usually only produce four or five flowers; however, Undertoe tend to grow in small groups of three or four, and create a lovely scene with their white flowers blossoming together in floral camaraderie. The Undertoe blossoms for a few weeks until finally falling away in mid-summer.
The base of the flower swells, then furcates, usually into three or four smaller bulbs. These continue to swell and deepen into a deep blue. The berries rarely find their way into a pie or cake, being a bit sour, but tend to be preferred by many woodland creatures, including deer, rabbits, and birds. Such creatures will carry the Undertoe berry to other places in the forest to sprout.
d)
Territory
: The Undertoe Herb grows in many forests throughout mid-Sarvonia. It prefers slightly colder climes where evergreen forests are more common, and can therefore be found in forests such as the Shaded Wood, Thaelon, and Bolder Forest. It can rarely be found farther south than the Goltherlon Forest. In addition to the larger forests, it will commonly occupy small wooded areas, so long as it is shaded and wooded enough.
The Undertoe seems to prefer growing at the base of evergreen trees for reasons yet unknown. In some cases it has been known to grow at the base of a wooden house built of evergreen trees. Its roots are shallow and so do not disturb the trees around which it grows. As it is a fairly common herb, it is not often found in gardens.
e)
Usages
: The Undertoe Herb has a couple of common uses. The first, and most well-known (particularly among the sartorial or painter community) is as a dye or paint. It is very popular among Caltharian weavers and dyers. The deep blue berries are often crushed and treated to make a bright blue colour. Because of the nature of the berries, the dye or paint it creates can be easily mixed with others to create other colours, and it is therefore often used in the creation of purple and (particularly) green dyes and paints. However, it must be treated thoroughly or its longevity will suffer. The best quality dyes created out of the Undertoe are created by the Caltharians and occasionally exported to other dyers as far south as New Santhala.
The Undertoe leaf has a pleasantly minty scent and is often used in the treatment of foot odour. Simply plucking a leMany herbalists will crush the leaves by mortar and pestle, combine them with alcohol and/or vinegar, and work them into a paste that can be spread on the inside of the shoe or directly on to the foot to decrease the potency of the smell. This method is usually more effective and longer-lasting.
f)
Reproduction
: Like many plants, the Undertoe Herb starts life as a little seed, usually deposited with a number of other Undertoe seeds in a fertile collection of dung, preferably at the base of some tall and sturdy evergreen tree. It will sprout little roots, then a little stem and leaves, usually when spring is just shaking off winter. It will grow at a moderate but respectable pace, enjoy the season, growing taller and taller as it soaks up spring rains.
As spring is preparing for repose and summer is peacefully waking, the Undertoe begins to effloresce, its white flower blossoming in the lazy summer shade of the forests. It may attract a malise or butterfly or two, but the flower seems perfectly content to wave its little head in the zephyrs strolling through the thickets. When summer’s youth has gone, the flower will be gone, too, but leave the beginnings of a berry in its wake.
And the single berry will turn to two or three or four, and molt out of its greenish hue, darkening until it ripens to a deep blue. Its deep colour flirts and coaxes the forest creatures to dine, and deer and rabbits may come to nibble at the small berries, or a little bird may come to gobble them up. Carried in this manner, the berry’s seeds will find home in another part of the wood, where it will sprout come spring.
Autumn will come and go without much change to the Undertoe, but winter will quietly steal it away, though it may rise again when the snow melts at last.
g)
Myth/Lore
: [None to speak of. No stories or associations—unless, of course, you can think of one!]
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Re: Undertoe
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Read it, and have found a couple of oversights, so here we go:
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The small berries are often used in
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are hardly more than a nail
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The deep blue berries are often crushe
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and treated to make a bright blue col
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(also search for two more "color"s to replace, also: odor --> odour)
Another nice entry, Rayne, even though it's not that much Santhariarized, only the Territory section has some references. But it helps with building our Herbarium bit by bit, and surely is very detailed otherwise, so all fine with me
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Changes integrated. Sorry it's not more Santharized. I will say that I referenced no other plant when writing it--it has no terran model. But without a myth to ties it to a god, it makes it harder to seem really well-integrated in the world. If you have a myth or story, or any other suggestions for Santharizing it a bit, please let me know!
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Re: Undertoe
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Well, as far as Santharising the entry is concerned, how about expanding the Usages section with some culture-specific details? Its range seems to overlap with the territory of the Caltharians, who are known for dying cloth. How do they use it, or do they not? Or perhaps there could be more details about the mixed dyes and paints it's used in? Surely there is some regional or cultural variation in what is made, and how they're made? What about the cultural significance of those dyes? The plant itself seems pretty common, so I'm guessing the unmixed dye probably is too, but maybe it is an ingredient in an expensive dye or two?
The same can apply to the foot odour treatment usage. How widespread is it? Is there any variation between who uses the alcohol variant and who uses the vinegar variant?
Spotted a couple of what seems to be typos:
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mortar
and pestle, combine them with alcohol and/or
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I made the correction and some changes with regards to the dyes. I want to keep the foot odour thing fairly general, since this, I would assume, is a relatively common treatment. Thank you, Mina!
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Now it's definitely a bit better integrated, and I guess that should do it here as well. Marked for next update!
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