Plants from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.
Category: Botany
Iodine Tree - The iodine tree (here we yield again to the didactic impulse, but will try to refrain from doing so too often in the future) is a purple-leaved plant which produces yungun, the traditional chewing gum...
jafogus - 'Mah!' cried Gorkindachina. And down went Atlanta's prize jafogus cactus, displaced from its place of pride on the windowledge. 'Mah!' cried Gorkindachina. [WoH Ch10]
jalajek - Pseudo-coral The towers of skump consisted of jalajek pseudo-coral living in a symbiotic relationship with warpweed. The warpweed drew seawater from the depths and excreted it again at the heights,...
skump - skump, otherwise known as skump-coral, or pump-coral. Heineman's prau drifted into the shadows of one of the Spliars. Each of these towers was made of skump, otherwise known as skump-coral, or...
Tree Of Broccoli - So Heineman spent the morning giving a speech; and listening to the speeches of others; and tasting a great many dishes of broccoli, and tasting them, too, with every evidence of enthusiasm. In reward...
warpweed - Coral weed So thought Heineman, contemplating the looming, curving mass of the glistening white hull of the Zuzu Magore. He eyed the chunk of pinnacle warily. Drifts of aquarium fish hung around it,...