Hotaru's Ninja Niche
Library::Plants of Genua
Cereus
- Description
- Cereus is a night-blooming plant with silvery-white flowers that smell strongly of vanilla.
- Cultivation
- It is found only in warm, damp, swampy conditions, and favours Genua and the Counterweight Continent.
- Uses
- Cereus causes mild confusion, and is best mixed with other ingrediants, such as Skullcap to enhance its effect.
Clematis
- Description
- Clematis is a tall herb, with striped red and green leaves and large white flowers.
- Cultivation
- It is found mostly in the warm, damp, swampy conditions of Genua.
- Uses
- This herb when ingested, irritates the eyes and throat giving rise to a flow of tears that eventually become so severe that the person drowns in their own bodily fluids.
Hellebore
- Description
- A low-growing herb with dark, shining, smooth leaves and pure white blossoms that rise directly from the roots.
- Cultivation
- Hellebore seems to like the swampy conditions of Genua and does not grow elsewhere.
- Uses
- Hellebore is a violent narcotic, and thus can result in stupor, coma, convulsions or death.
Hemlock
- Description
- Hemlock is a tall herb with an unpleasant mousy smell. It has small white flowers that branch off a yellow stem.
- Cultivation
- Grows wild in the plains that surround Ankh-Morpork as well as in some parts of Genua.
- Uses
- It causes a general feeling of illness, which can last for some time after ingestion. Most potent when combined with snake venom
Skullcap
- Description
- A low herb, with lush, dark green leaves and tiny blue flowers. The flowers have a strange helmet like shape to them.
- Cultivation
- Skullcap is found mostly in humid, swampy conditions.
- Uses
- Once treated, ingestion can cause acute confusion and disorientation. This effect can be increased by combining it with Cereus and various other ingredients.
Wormwood
- Description
- A tall firm herb with large, whitish leaves and nearly globular green-yellow flowers.
- Cultivation
- Wormwood grows all over the Disc, from shady areas in woods and forests to the swamps of Genua.
- Uses
- It causes strange yet very specific hallucinations when treated correctly. Is the main ingrediant in Absinthe.
