List of Plants of The Edge Chronicles - B

B

• Barleyrice - Possibly similar to barley or rice, used commonly as a foodcrop.
• Bloodoak - Bloodoak is a carnivorous plant that grows to the size of a tree. It resembles a large tree with a gaping maw at its summit filled with many wooden "teeth". It can voluntarily swallow or spit out its prey. It ejects bones, but draws blood to its roots, where young female termagant trogs drink it as part of their "Blooding Ceremony" which turns them termagent. Bloodoak wood is very strong when dead, but extremely flexible when alive, adding to the sinister animal-like aspect. When burned, it screams violently. Bloodoak wood is the most buoyant wood on the Edge, and therefore highly desired for building sky-ships. Bloodoaks co-operate with the similarly mobile tarry vines to draw in and consume prey. When felling the Bloodoak, the felling party must either "engage" the tarry vine or use bait to distract it (a dishonourable approach) Tem Barkwater was used as tarry vine bait, before being found by Quint. Steg Jambles is caught and eaten in Clash of the Sky Galleons. Twig is almost devoured by a bloodoak in Beyond the Deepwoods.
• Blue Pumpkin - Apart from being a blue colour, Blue pumpkins are not mentioned to be any different from normal Earth pumpkins.
• Bristleweed - It is found in purple clumps among the bones lying scattered around bloodoaks (see "bloodoak" above). It is used to make a tea sold to Twig in "Midnight Over Sanctaphrax" in the Great Shryke Slave Market by a gabtroll that told him it would help him find himself.
• Butterblooms - Possibly similar to buttercups or other meadow flowers. They grow in large groups along paths or in hammelhorn grazing pastures.