Books:Greg Keyes Novels/Plants

The following plants appear in The Infernal City and Lord of Souls.

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Almond

Annaïg considers at one point how too many raw almonds can be poisonous.

Apple

Colin buys some apples in the Market District of the Imperial City, and Annaïg later considers how apple seeds can be poisonous.

Arrowroot

Arrowroot is used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel.

Ash

Ash trees grow in County Bravil; Attrebus travels past some.

Bamboo

Bamboo is found in the Old Imperial Quarter of Lilmoth; there are mentioned to be places overgrown with it.

Blackberry

Blackberries are used in Umbriel's kitchens. Slyr tells Annaïg that she was experimenting with making a condensation from them.

Bloodball

Bloodball is a type of fruit found on Umbriel, growing on vines in the Fringe Gyre.

Cardamom

Cardamom is used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel. Annaïg uses it to prepare a smoke with other ingredients as a course in the competition to cook for Lord Umbriel.

Cherry

Annaïg considers at one point how too many cherry pits can be poisonous.

Clove

Clove is used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel. Among other uses, Annaïg uses it to prepare a smoke with other ingredients as a course in the competition to cook for Lord Umbriel.

Cumin

Cumin is another ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel. Annaïg uses it to prepare a smoke with other ingredients as a course in the competition to cook for Lord Umbriel.

Cypress

Cypress grows in County Bravil; Attrebus travels past some. Annaïg's father owns some furniture made of cypress, and the needles are used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel.

Durian

Durian is used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel; Annaïg uses it multiple times.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is used is an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel; Ooroy creates a hedgehog-and-eucalypus broth for Lord Ghol.

Fennel fern

A whitish-green fern which is used to soothe the stomach and is used in poultices for thick-eye. Annaïg identifies it in Qijne's kitchen.

Ginger

A stench that Attrebus smells is described as being like rotting ginger.

Helsh

Helsh is a red root from Umbriel that is used as an ingredient in the kitchens.

Inf

A type of fern that grows in the sump. Its fronds are collected for the kitchens of Umbriel.

Kraken barnacles

Shelled food native to Black Marsh, found growing on Umbriel.

Lemon

Colin buys some lemon water in the Market District.

Lucan mold

Lucan mold is described as being phosphorescent. It appears in the Old Imperial Quarter of Lilmoth.

Mangrove

Mangrove trees grow in Black Marsh, and an Argonian folk tale claims that they were once giant spiders that earned the wrath of the Hist and were transformed.

Marshmerrow

Marshmerrow is a plant native to Morrowind. Annaïg, knowing that Lord Umbriel was once a Dunmer, uses it in a dish for him. She comments that marshmerrow begs to be made into hluurn or echar.

Moss-oat

A type of plant that grows in the Fringe Gyre of Umbriel. Fhena says that stories say that Umbriel was once planted in place like the moss-oat, rather than floating and moving.

Mustard

An ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel. Annaïg uses it to prepare a smoke with other ingredients as a course in the competition to cook for Lord Umbriel.

Nutmeg

Annaïg considers at one point how too much nutmeg is poisonous.

Oak

Oak trees grow in County Bravil; Attrebus travels past some.

Pepper

An ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel. Annaïg uses it to prepare a smoke with other ingredients as a course in the competition to cook for Lord Umbriel.

Pine

Colin smells pine when he is abducted at the beginning of the second book.

Rejjem

A plant that grows in the sump. Its sap is collected for the kitchens of Umbriel.

Slackweed

A type of weed that grows in the sump. Its tendrils are mentioned as being twenty feet long.

Sleeping palm

A type of palm tree found in the Old Imperial Quarter of Lilmoth; there are mentioned to be places overgrown with it.

Terriswort

A plant used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel.

Water Oak

A type of oak that grows in Black Marsh. Mere-Glim uses water oak and white oak as an example when comparing the Hist to Umbriel's Hist-like trees.

White Oak

A type of oak that grows in Black Marsh. Mere-Glim uses water oak and white oak as an example when comparing the Hist to Umbriel's Hist-like trees.

White Poplar

White poplars grow along the streams near Anvil; Letine Arese reminds Colin of one.

Weavecane

Weavecane is a plant used to make furniture; Annaïg's father has a couch made from it.

Willow

Willows grow in Cyrodiil. Attrebus travels past some in County Bravil, and Colin speaks to a ghost who comments that there were willow trees in Mortal (the town where she lived), and she asks him to think of her the next time he sees a willow tree. It is also used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel.