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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 8619913" data-attributes="member: 25818">There were a few good system neutral articles providing plants in old Dragon magazines: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Wounds and Weeds" by Kevin J. Anderson (#82) gave some healing rules and descriptions of twelve real-world herbs: Aaron's rod, adder's-tongue, birthwort, comfrey, garlic, henbane, herb true-love, juniper berry, marsh-mallow, St.-John's-wort, sphagnum moss, and woundwort.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The Legacy of Hortus" by Jack Crane (#87) provided descriptions of fifteen fanciful animal-plant hybrids: beebalm, butterfly flowers, catnip, cobra orchids, cowslips, dandelions, foxglove, horehound, lambs ear, parrot tulips, smartweed, snake vine, snap dragons, tiger lilies, and wormwood.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The Plants of Biurndon" by Eric W. Pass (#108) gives descriptions of thirteen trees and herbs from the author's home campaign: sticktree, rivertree, papertree, medicinetree, redtree, natertree, lenthal, graveolens, boneset, redoil, angelica, blue tonic, and felamour.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The Ecology of Carnivorous Plants" by Gregg Chamberlain (#137) covers carnivorous plants in both the real world and in gaming; he doesn't provide any new plants, but discusses the carnivorous plants in various AD&D books.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The Dragon's Bestiary" by Gregg Chamberlain (#167) has AD&D stats for eight monstrous plants: giant bladderwort, giant butterwort, giant rainbow plant, giant waterwheel plant, swordgrass, clubfern, bloodflower, and hellborn.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The Dragon's Bestiary: Bad Seeds" by Ed Bonny, Skip Williams, and Steve Winter (#292) has seven plant/fungus monsters: death’s head tree, greenvise, myconid, needleman, orcwort, wortling, and red sundew.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Arcane Botanica" by Noel Scott (#357) talks about twelve new magical plants: djinn blossoms, nahre lotus, orevine, salamander orchids, aelfengrape, coldwood, fey cherry, flame clove, glowvine, lakeleaf, lichbriar, and tahtoalehti (aka, wishfern).</li> </ul>Aside from the ones that are based on just awful puns, there are some cool ideas in there!</blockquote>

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