Appearance: This flower has dark green stalks that grow up to 1' tall, and pointy dark green oval shaped leaves with serrated edges. The stalks have short thin spines that look almost like white bristles but they come off easily if disturbed, and can embed themselves in any exposed skin they come into contact with. These spines contain a mild toxin that will cause an intense stinging sensation much like that of stinging nettles. If someone gets pricked by these spines a lot while trying to pick the flower or harvest its leaves, the toxin can cause numbness that will last from a few bits to a few breaks depending on how sensitive the victim is to the toxin (and drugs/alcohol in general). When the toxin wears off, sensation will return slowly with a mild tingling sensation that feels like pins and needles that progressively becomes over a break then fades quickly. It is an annual plant that produces fragrant large blue, palm sized flowers. These flowers blossom only at night, and they appear to glow. During daylight hours, they close up into a bud like form. If the flower is picked, it will not close up again during the trial, and the flower will last for five trials or so before it wilts.
Description: They grow in forests and meadows, especially near streams, rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water. They can also be cultivated.
Frequency: Common near water, uncommon otherwise.
Level of Danger: Low due to the stinging pain and possible temporary numbness caused by exposure to its spines. Wearing thick gloves while picking the flower negates the risk.
Special Properties: The flowers, leaves, and the dew collecting in the flowers before the sun has risen are edible
Additional Information: These flowers are difficult to grow in a garden because they are an invasive plant that will spread quickly and take over a garden if not handled properly, they require specific nutrients in the soil that may be difficult for an inexperienced gardener to provide, and their spines present some risk to the unwary when weeding near them but they can be grown by someone with expert gardening.
Fast Facts:
Knowing It
-- Rharne: Novice
-- Idalos: Competent for people who have traveled to Rharne or are interested in the culture and traditions of other places, Expert otherwise
Wealth Tier
-- Rharne: Tier 4 (less if someone wants one enough to pick it without the gloves that will protect their hands from the spines
-- Idalos: Tier 6
Sell/Buy It
-- Rharne: Novice
Rarity
-- Rharne: Common
-- Idalos: Uncommon due to nutrients in the soil
Finding It
-- Rharne: Novice
-- Idalos: Competent since it isn't as common
Collecting It
-- Rharne: Novice
-- Idalos: Novice
Using It
-- Giving it to someone/displaying it in a vase: Novice
-- Growing it: expert
-- Cooking/Brewing with its ingredients: Novice to Expert depending on which ingredient is being used and how it is being used
Killing It
-- Novice
Capturing It
-- NA
Danger
-- Low
Tending It
-- Expert
Credit: Seira Shiryu
