Flora

Plants on Nenmar.

fimmen—The most abundant type of tree found on Nenmar. Its trunk looks like a giant bamboo stalk with green bark and ridged rings about every arms-length up the tree. Its leaves and branches begin about ⅔ of the way up, and then are very thick and numerous. By squeezing the bark of fimmen trees, a waxy sap is obtained which is used for a variety of purposes—these include various medicinal applications, fabrication of organic self focusing contact lenses, the Nenmaran equivalent of glass, and fiber optic lines for providing indoor light from starlight concentrators called "frillom" lamps.

luffel—Dense ground vegetation, consisting mostly of ankle-thick leafy vines, found mostly in low lying moist areas and around the edge of bodies of water.

mallof—Nenmaran crab grass; a hearty but useless plant, which sometimes must be weeded from the sliffut fields.

nellar—A less abundant type of tree, which grows only to about 7 meters high—it had no known use until its leaves were used to feed the pellar stock. Nellar trees are found usually only within the first 10 meters of the edge of a forest as they are squeezed out deeper in by the larger fimmen trees.

pommil—A flowering ground berry, similar to a strawberry but the flower of which is an integral part of the berry itself and it is edible. These plants grow in the dryer upper levels where there are no luffel vines to block their sunlight. Pommil berries are somewhat of a "dessert" for Nenmarans.

sliffut—An edible leafy wheat-like plant, which is the staple diet for Nenmarans. Also sliffut stalk fibers are used for spinning thread used for clothing and other textile products.

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