brak bush - a shrub whos leaves have a purgative effect when chewed, traditionally branches of it are nailed to the doors of a house during the waiting hand to discourage the entry of bad luck into the house for the new year.
carpet plant - a plant of the rainforest area inland of Schendi having tendrils that are used it this example to bind a woman.
dina - a small, short stemmed flower indigenous to hillsides, sometimes called the slave flower as it is often used for a slave name.
fan palm - found in the jungles of Schendi, more than 20 feet high which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened fan, an excellent source of water, as much as a liter at the base of each leafs cupped system.
flahdah - a tree of Tahari having lanceolate leaves, the trunk leans like that of a palm tree
flaminium - a large scarlet flower with five petals
kanda - a plant that grows in the desert. It has toxic roots, even poisenous. The leaves can be rolled and formed into strings which are chewed or sucked on to produce stimulant effect, tis gors morphine, fatal if swallowed.
katch - foliated leaf vegetable, used in salads.
larma -single seeded apple like fruit, a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed commonly called pit fruit.
leech plant - a living rooted plant with bladder like seed pod, it can fasten 2 hollow fang like thorns into its victim thru which it can suck blood that nourishes it. A chemical response of the pods cause an eerie resemblance to contracting and expanding lungs.
liana vine - a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water.
melon - in a Taharian market, described only as yellowish red striped sphere.
needle tree - an evergreen tree of Thentis region whos oil is used in perfumes
palm tree - more than 1500 varieties of palm trees exist in the rainforests, one of which is the fan palm. ( see fan palm)
ramberry - small reddish fruit similar to plums, has many small edible seeds
rence - a tufted reed like plant that grows in the marshes it has long thick roots, about 4 inches thick which lies under the surface of the water with smaller roots that sink down to the mud with stems 15-16 feet long with a single floral spike used for making paper, which is exported all over gor. Each part of the remce is used for something :
rence root - wooden tools and utensils and fuel.
rence stem - used to make reed boats, sail mats, cords and fiberous cloth
rep - a whitish fiberous matter found in the seed pods of a small reddish woody brush used to make rep cloths
sar- tarna - referred to as "life daughter" staple gorean grains, described as yellow shafts growing in rows in a field.
shrub, kes - a shrub whos salty blue secondary roots are the main ingredients in sullage, a gor soup.
sim plant -a rambling tangled vine like plant with huge rolling leaves raised in the pasture chamber of the nest.
sip root - a bitter root whos extract is used as the active ingredient of slave wyne.
sul - a large thick skinned starchy yellow fleshed root vegetable. It is a staple of the gorean diet.
sul plant - vine with golden leaves
ta grape - edibel purple fruit the size of a small plum from which ta wine is made, usually associated with Cos, but also found in various locales if similar latitude.
talender - delicate and yellow petaled, a fragrant meadow flower when worn in a slave girls hair it is a symbol of deep submission to her owner, and often a silent plea for the girl to be used sexually.
telekint - a plant of the Tahari, its roots are mashed and mixed with water to provide red dye.
teslik - a plant whose extract is alive in the active ingredient in breeding wine.
tor shrub - translated as the bright flowers, either yellow or white depending on the variety. It flowers in the fall.
tree flower - found in Turia, it has lovely dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hang from curved branches. In pleasure gardents the trees are cultivated so that the clustered flowers emerge in the subtle delicate patterns of shades and hues.
tree hogarth - a tree of the barrens named for one of the early explorers of the area. They tend to grow on the banks of small streams or muddy, sluggish rivers. Because they are so similar to poplar trees of earth, Tarl imagines their seeds may have been transported to gor from earth.
tree, ka la na - a tree with strong yellow wood used for making bows, the fruit is used for making wine.
tree, temwood - in Turia, found in groves, linear, supple, and black.
tree, tur - described as reddish and large trunked, it is found in Turia, the realm of Turia is said to have taken its name from a single solitary tur tree found planted long ago in the plains.
turpah - a vine like parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves which are edible and an ingredient of sullage, a gorean soup.
verminium oil - a by product of verminium petals being boiled in water, a scented oil used in mid to upper class homes to rinse hands before and after eating.
veminium desert - a small purplish flower used for perfume found in the Taharis.
veminium thentis - a bluish wildflower commonly found on lower ranges of the Thentis Mountains, used in perfumes.
verr grass - a brownish grass that grows stubbornly in the shaded spots of the Tahari