Desert Berry Bush

Desert Berry Bush

A plant that appears to be dead bushes in the desert, which give bright red berries every full moon.

Description

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 is great concentration of cactus. I have never found 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 extremelly sweet, something very strange to find in the desert, so no wonder the animals enjoy it.

Effects

The stalks are not like the berries, if an animal by any chance passed the long thorns to rip and eat the stalk, I believe 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 you eat it, the mouth and face start to get raches. 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. It doesn't seem deadly to descendents or kha's. It has the same effects as the juices in the stalk, so a thorn is poisoness, and annoying, just doesn't kill big animals.

Alchemy Symbol

While the stalk behaves like a Moderate Earth symbol in alchemy concoctions, the berries behave like a weak fire symbol.