Shape of plums grow under the fronds, dropping off once a year after the first snowfall.īeetle palm wood is a dull brown and lightens as it dries, becoming a mellow tan. Clus¬ters of spindly, spiky fronds often mistaken for leafless branches crown their otherwise smooth trunks, and a small cluster of soft-rinded, smooth, black, bitter-tasting nuts the size and general On average, they grow to 70 feet in height, but a few grow to heights of 100 feet or more. The most common of the unique trees of Faerfin are listed hereafter alphabetically.īeetle palm trees, named for their black bark, which looks like a beetle's carapace, are found mainly in the mid¬wood of the great forest Cormanthor. Each wood mentioned herein is rated for its suitability for long-term use (in magical items) and as a consum¬able (a material component for spell use). This is not an exhaustive guide to the flora of Faerfin, but merely a light overview for the use of folk interested in using wood as a material in the making of magical items and for other magical purposes. There are likely to be many more sorts of these homegrown trees than Faerfinian mages are aware of-and more distant corners of Toril could well hold many, many more. These include: beetle palm, blueleaf, calantra, chime oak, duskwood, felsul, hiexel, las- par, phandar, roseneedle pine, shadowtop, silverbark, suth, vund- wood, weirwood, and zalantar. In addition, the Realms possesses more than a few apparently unique types of trees. Cork and rubber trees are found only in particular areas in the far South. Birch and yew are present throughout Faerfin, but rare. Ever¬greens exist in the northern regions, and most hardwoods live in the central forests. In warmer regions, the date palm, coconut palm, ebony, cypress, and mangrove are common. Trees of the Realms found on other crystal spheres include: apple, ash, beech, birch, cedar, cherry, chestnut, coconut palm, cork, cypress, date palm, ebony, elm, hawthorn, hickory, hornbeam, ironwood, mangrove, maple, oak, pine, rubber, spruce, thorn, willow, and yew. Many varieties found in Faerfin are known widely on other planes and in the worlds within other crystal spheres, such as Oerth and Krynn. Newt Scamander keeps a bowtruckle named Pickett in his pocket (WFT).īowtruckles make chattering noises (WFT).Faerfin is a land of trees, sporting a great variety of such flora. A witch or wizard seeking to take leaves or wood from a bowtruckle-inhabited tree should offer woodlice or fairy eggs to the bowtruckle to placate and distract it.Ī group of Bowtruckles is called a “branch” (FB/BTM). Although ordinarily peaceful, a bowtruckle will attack a human if provoked (which includes perceived assaults upon the bowtruckle’s tree as well as the bowtruckle itself). The twiglike fingers of the bowtruckle appear to be primarily an adaptation like that of a woodpecker’s beak, allowing it to more effectively dig out its preferred food of wood lice from its home tree, but they also serve as an effective weapon against the eyes of an opponent. A small (maximum height 8 inches) insect-eating tree-dweller with long sharp fingers (two on each hand), brown eyes, and a general appearance of a flat-faced little stickman made of bark and twigs, which serves well as camouflage in its native habitat.įound in western England, southern Germany, and Scandinavia, a bowtruckle serves as tree-guardian for its home tree, which is usually a tree whose wood is of wand quality.
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