Desert Berry Bush

Artwork by -name- Desert Berry Bush Area: Deserts Size: Medium Edibility: Poisonous and sweet (plant and fruit) Alchemy Symbol: Earth/Fire Alchemy Tier: Moderate/Weak Note: This herb cannot be obtained mechanically, this is purely a lore herb.

A plant that appears to be dead bushes in the desert, which give bright red berries every full moon. The Desert Berry Bush's appearance is that of a withered rose bush, long brown/grey stalks with big pointy thorns, yet without any leaves. It doesn't appear to grow higher than four feet, but most of the thorns are longer than an inch. It grows inside cactus forests, as in, where there are great concentration of cactus. Never will you find one alone in the desert, without a cactus near it. If you cut the stalk, you notice that the insides are green, instead of the dead brown. The bush gives Berries of Red color every full moon. These don't last long, as animals of the desert appear to enjoy it's taste quite dearly. The berries are extremely sweet, something very strange to find in the desert, so no wonder the animals enjoy it.

Effects on use

The stalks are not like the berries, if an animal by any chance passed the long thorns to rip and eat the stalk, it would fall dead in less than a day. From cut stalks, it's juice flows a lot, yet of course it's poison to drink it. If it's eaten, the mouth and face start to get rashes. Too much of it and it kills of course. Touching one of the thorns makes the hand or finger start itching and became red for about a day. Touching a torn doesn't seem deadly to Descendants or Khas, but to many smaller animals it is. It might create a macabre sight around the plant, with small rodents carcases near it.

Alchemical uses

While the stalk behaves like a Moderate Earth symbol in alchemy concoctions, representing Protection and Resilience. The berries behave differently, like a weak fire symbol representing Empowerment and Overwhelming. The berries, unlike the stalk, don't have much use in potions, useful only for training purposes, for it's quite a safe ingredient to use.

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