Artic flowers The tundra at this time of year belies its reputation for bleakness. In many places it bursts into bloom with small flowers. Almost all of the plants of this nature are perennials, as the growing season is too short to permit most annuals to complete their growing cycle. In the winter buds of many of these plants lie dormant in a fluffy sheath which protects them from cold. Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole. None of these, interestingly, is poisonous, and none possesses thorns. During the summer plants and flowers will grow almost anywhere in the arctic except on or near the glacial ice. ---Beasts of Gor, pg196

Brak Brush "Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect. It is thought that...the branches of the Brak Bush discourage entry of bad luck into the houses of the citizens." Assassin of Gor, page 211

Carpet Plant "I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied this simple bandage shut with the tendrils of a carpet plant." (Explorers of Gor, page 347)

Clover, green I set her down on a bed of green clover. Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees.... ---Tarnsman of Gor, 7:96

Cocoa tree "This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ulti- mately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No, Mistress," she said. "We obtain the beans, from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who, in turn, obtain them in the tropics." ---Kajira of Gor, 3:61

Colored Grass He picked up a stalk of a patch of violet grass, one of several hues used in such gardens, and began to chew on it.... ---Nomads of Gor, 19:216-217 ...He made his way across some dark blue and yellowish orange grass and came to the buildings set against one wall of the gardens. ---Nomads of Gor, 19:219 "Stop," I heard, a man's voice. Instantly I stopped, my heart sinking. I turned, of course, immediately, and fell to my knees, putting my head down to the lavender grass, as was its color here, in this portion of the garden, the palms of my hands down, too, on the grass, beside my head. ---Witness of Gor (unedited manuscript), Ch3

Dina my own brand was the 'dina', the dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor, in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower..." Slave Girl of Gor, page 61 "But, perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can easily be crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded." Slave Girl of Gor, page 62

Fan Palm "One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an open fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped at the base of each leaf's stem." (Explorers of Gor, page 310)

Festal "What do you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery." He said, "some grass, some rence, two trees." "What sort of shrubbery?" I asked. "Some festal," he said. "some tes, a bit of tor." ---Vagabonds of Gor, 30:339

Flahdah "Occasionally we passed a water hole, and the tents of nomads. About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched with lanceolate leaves." (Tribesmen of Gor, page 72)

Flaminium "There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us." Hunters of Gor, page 154

Flower Trees "And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. I knew that the clusters of flowers which; cluster upon cluster, graced those linear, hanging stems, would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues." Nomads of Gor, page 217

Gieron "My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga. "The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague." (Explorers of Gor, page 154)

Grass "At the edge of the Thentis Mountains, in the driest areas, the grass is short. As one moves in an easterly direction it becomes taller, ranging generally from ten to eighteen inches in height; as one moves even further east it can attain a height of several feet, reaching as high as the knees of a man riding a kaiila. On foot, it is easier to become lost in such grass than in the northern forests. (Savages of Gor, pg, 65)

Hemp a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows. ---Raiders of Gor, 1 & :2

Hogarthe trees "On the rise, there were two trees, white barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves. They stood within some 40 to 50 feet of another and both were outlined dramatically against the sky. They were Hogarthe trees, named for Hogarthe one of the early explorers of the barrens. They were reminiscent of the poplar trees on earth. (Blood Brother of Gor, pg, 300)

Ka-la-na Trees "The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..." Captive of Gor, page 250 "...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket...I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave...It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female." Captive of Gor, page 114 "Ho-Hak reached down and unwrapped the leather from the yellow bow of supple Ka-la-na." Raiders of Gor, page 19 "Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor...." Nomads of Gor, page 217

Kanda "Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a string of rolled kanda leaf. The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in desert regions on Gor, are extremely toxic, : but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed into strings and, chewed or sucked, are much favored by many Goreans" (Nomads of Gor, page 43) "On the twentieth day of the siege there was great rejoicing in the camp of Pa-Kur, because in one place the wires had been cut and a squad of spearmen had reached the main siege reservoir, emptying their barrels of toxic kanda, a lethal poison extracted from one of Gor's desert shrubs. (Tarnsman of Gor, pg, 179)

Katch "a foliated leaf vegetable called Katch..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Kes "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, …the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil." Priest Kings of Gor, page 45

Leech Plant "Once i shouted in pain. Two fangs had struck into my calf. An, ost I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladder like seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs....The leech plant strikes like a cobra and fastens two hollow thorns into its victim. The chemical responses of the bladder like pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it." Outlaw of Gor, page 33

Liana Vine "Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion to the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water." (Explorers of Gor, page 310)

Lotus From where I sat I could see two lovely pools, in which lotuslike plants floated; one of the pools was large enough for swimming; the other, I supposed, was stocked with tiny, bright fish from the various seas and lakes of Gor. ---Nomads of Gor, 19 & 218

Needle Tree "and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking." Raiders of Gor, page 141

Palm Tree "There is an incredible variety of trees in the rainforest, how many I cannot conjecture. There are, however, more than fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone." (Explorers of Gor, page 310)

Pod Tree The results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack of meal and vegetables, a length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree, dyed red, a handful of colored, wooden beads, and, most importantly, two pangas, two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives.... ---Explorers of Gor, 27 & 287

Pomegranate "Pomegranate orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said. "Gardens lie inward. There is even a pond, between two of the groves of date palms." ---Tribesmen of Gor, 11 & 174

Rence Grown in the marshes. Used for food, fuel, wooden utensils, cloth, and paper. "The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper…from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further its pith is edible…" Raiders of Gor, page 7 "Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominately in the delta of the Vosk." Nomads of Gor, page 49 "In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste." Raiders of Gor, page 28 "In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste. When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds." Raiders of Gor, page 25 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders Gor, page 44 "Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans." Raiders of Gor, page 44

Rep "for example, rep-cloth....Some rep is grown, for cloth..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 "Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular, particularly among the lower castes." Raiders of Gor, pages 10 & 11

Sajel "My pursuit of you was foiled," I said, "by the results of the drug you placed in my paga." "The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague." (Explorer of Gor, pg, 154 - 5)

Sim "I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vine-like plants with huge, rolling leaves, raised under square energy lamps fixed in the ceilings of the broad pasture chambers." (Priest-Kings of Gor, page 214)

Sip "A bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wine." (Blood Brothers of Gor, pages 46, 54 and 319)

Sweet bush "After one emerges from the sweat lodge one goes to a stream and washes in the cold water. One cleans with a knife or sharpened stick even under one's fingernails. A small fire of sweet-brush and needles, from the needle trees, is then built. One rubs the smoke from this fire into one's body. (Blood Brothers of Gor, pg, 308)

Sa-Tarna "I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot;…" Outlaw of Gor, page 76

Talendar The yellow Gorean flower associated with beauty and passion. "...I saw of set of ridges, lofty and steep, ,rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talendars, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens. Outlaw of Gor, page 131 "The talendar is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talendars. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talendars in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves." Raiders of Gor, pages 216 & 221 "Harold left the walk and stepped carefully to avoid trampling a patch of talenders, a delicate yellow flower, often associated in the Gorean mind with love and beauty." Nomads of Gor, page 218 - 19 "The talender, fixed in her hair, is a slaves girl's wordless confession, which, commonly, she dares not speak, that she cares for her Master" Hunters of Gor:65 "To put talenders in the neck rope of of the girl at the prow, of course, was a mockery, indicative of her possible disposition as a pleasure slave." (Raiders of Gor,, page 217)

Telekint The drover threw back the hood of his burnoose, and pulled down the veil about his face. Beneath the burnoose he wore a skullcap. The rep-cloth veil was red; it had been soaked in a primitive dye, mixed from water and the mashed roots of the telekint; when he perspired, it had run; his face was stained.... ---Tribesmen of Gor, 4 & 83

Teriotrope The multicolored ribbons were festive; the lamps were lovely; and the flowers, abundant and colorful, mostly larma blossoms, veminia and teriotrope, were beautiful and fragrant.... ---Guardsman of Gor, 20 & 240

Teslik The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine," is a derivative of teslik. ---Blood Brothers of Gor, 37 & 320

Tem-wood "Tem-wood for rudders and oars..." Raiders of Gor, page 141 "...there was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple..." Nomads of Gor, page 21

Tes "What do you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery." He said, "Some grass, some rence, two trees." "What sort of shrubbery?" I asked. "Some festal," he said. "Some tes, a bit of tor." ---Vagabonds of Gor, 30 & 339

Thorn Bush "Like the camps of many nomads the camp was on high ground, which commanded the terrain, but was itself concealed among scrub brush and boulders. There was a corral of thorn brush, uprooted and woven together, which served for kaiila." (Tribesman of Gor, page 137)

Trees of the Barren "Lines of such trees, in the Barrens, and low, sloping geodesics, watersheds, tend to mark, often the location of the tiny streams which occur in the country. (Blood Brothers of Gor, pg, 33)

Tor "What do you see?" I asked. "Shrubbery." He said, "Some grass, some rence, two trees." "What sort of shrubbery?" I asked. "Some festal," he said. "Some tes, a bit of tor." "You are sure it is a tor shrub?" I asked. He looked. "Yes," he said. "I too, think it is a tor shrub," I said. The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety. It was a very lovely shrub in bloom. It was not in bloom now, of course, as it flowers in the fall. He looked at me. "So?" he asked. "Do you notice anything unusual about it?" I asked. "No," he said. "How high is it?" I asked. "I would say some five feet in height," he said. "That too, would be my estimate," I said. "I do not understand," he said. "Does that not seem interesting to you?" I asked. "Not really," he said. "It does to me," I said. "Why?" he asked. "The tor shrub," I said, "does not grow higher than a man's waist." ---Vagabonds of Gor, 30 & 339

Tur there was one large trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled it's assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vine like tree parasite with curled scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes; such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name;..." Nomads of Gor, page 217 "Tur wood is used for galleys and frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking..." Raiders of Gor, page 141

Tospit I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white, peach like fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible." Nomads of Gor, page 59

Tur Tree "There was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name." (Nomads of Gor, page 217)

Tur-pah "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden- brown vine-borne fruit of the golden- leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees;" (Priest Kings of Gor, page 45)

Turl bush Such hides may be waterproofed by suspending them from, and wrapping them about, a small tripod of sticks, this set over a small fire on which, to produce the desiderated smoke, the leaves and branches of the turl bush are heavily strewn." (Savages of Gor, pg, 32)

Veminium "The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range;..." Assassin of Gor, page 163 "The petals of veminium, the 'Desert Veminium,' purplish, as opposed to the 'Thentis Veminium,' bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in a shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed into oil. This oil is used to perfume water. This water is not drunk but is used in middle and upper-class homes to rinse the eating hand, before and after the evening meal." Tribesmen of Gor, pages 50 - 51 "The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wild flower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range." (Assassin of Gor, page 163)

Verr grass "On the shaded sides of some rocks, and the shaded slopes of hills, here and there, grew stubborn, brownish patches of verr grass." (Tribesmen of Gor, page 71)