List of Plants of The Edge Chronicles - L

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• Leadwood - Like the ironwood tree, and the copperwood, the leadwood is a non-buoyant tree of the edge wood (probably weighing as much as lead) It is noted a few times as being without grain,akin to polished metal, not wood.
• Loafsap - A type of bread which is said to be very filling when eaten, making it able to last for weeks.
• Lullabee - A tree that sings almost hypnotically. Feared by woodtrolls because its music may confuse or soporify the listener, but a favored haunt of clairvoyant caterbirds, carnivorous skullpelts, and wise oakelves.
• Lufwood - The lufwood tree is ash-grey and very tall, with a straight trunk devoid of many branches up until the canopy.

Lufwood timber has many unique qualities: it burns with a purple flame, which some find soothing. It is also one of many "buoyant woods" of the Edge, meaning that it becomes lighter than air in certain circumstances and can shoot off like a rocket; therefore it has to be burned in stoves. This attribute has led to certain sky-pirates using the wood in punishments known as "skyfiring": a mutinous person is strapped to a burning piece of lufwood (or any other buoyant wood) and then released to shoot off into open sky, never to return.

Most buoyant wood is also lighter than usual in normal temperatures, so they are often used in the construction of sky-ships. It is known that woodtrolls favour lufwood for use in their stoves and certain rituals.