"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, page 339

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

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

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

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

"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, particularly in the southern hemisphere, where leaf is more abundant." Nomads of Gor, page 43

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 bladderlike 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 bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it." Outlaw of Gor, page 33

Needle Tree

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

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

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 216-217

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 217

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, peachlike 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

"...there was one large trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled it's 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 wood is used for galleys and frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking..." Raiders of Gor, page 141

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