Basi berries are gathered and then beaten down mechanically to separate the flesh into a thick pulp akin to petroleum jelly. The dark thick pulp comes with an earthy, slightly bitter taste akin to mixing 80% dark chocolate and blackberry with a tinge of red huckleberry, and it's a food staple on Freeish Kingdom. Folks over there eat it with literally everything, pairing it with grilled or fried fish, dried jerky, and even adding sugar and ice cubes and eating it as a dessert. It is also quite heavy on fiber, which explains why the Freeish Kingdom basically grinds to a halt for a bit after lunch and dinner! Other kingdoms likely don't partake much in that cuisine as the basi pulp only tastes good fresh, and as soon as you refrigerate or freeze it, the flavor breaks down to tasting like dirt.

Black Sapphire, a.k.a black wood, is now a highly endangered species, with a single tree fetching a sapphire ball or more in the open market. Scientists are still determining exactly how it survives without leaves and multiplies without bearing seeds, but they have a strong hint as the surroundings of one of these trees are always barren, devoid of life. The longer one of these trees lives, the bigger the lifeless area around them becomes. Old tales from before the fall of Ganyrami stated that when one of those trees grew large enough, one could feel a malaise taking over just by standing around it. Usurpuing and storing soul energy is definitely at the core of this tree's properties, as its perfectly black wood can prevent soul energy leakage like no other tree, even better than the soul tree itself. Not only that, the timber it produces is as tough as diamonds, requiring the most expensive and intense tools to process a single tree.

Cadioca is poisonous if eaten raw! One must soak it in a river for two days and then let it dry in the sun for three days before it can be used for cooking. How people discovered it? Pure hunger from back on Ganyrami days. The taste is pretty close to cassava, with most people consuming it either grounded and roasted into coarse grains or fried like fresh fries, but chunkier and with skin on for that extra crispy taste. The latter is a favorite across the four kingdoms, but they must pay a premium for transport from Freeish, where it is farmed intensively.

Carbey was annoying grass everyone hated it, at least until they discovered how tasty it is to mix it with water and yeast and then shove it in a wood stove. Farmed intensively in Freeish, like most other things, but some holdouts in Tolerideme insist their Carbey yields taste far better, specifically when used for spirits, despite it being much harder to cultivate over there. Carbey is another staple food Forway uses to establish the base value of a single pearl ball.

Cocona tree is an invasive but handy tree, according to most scientists. Its origin is, without a doubt, pinned upon Buhraies folks since the only thing about this tree that is not foreign is the translucent, colorful foliage it has akin to the Soul tree's bark. The Cocona fruit is double the size of regular coconuts, and opening a fruit to reveal its insides is like opening a loot box. Although you can probably guess the water versus flesh ratio by shaking it and infer the possible color and taste based on the plant's surroundings, you will likely not be better than random chance! Flavors and colors are unexpected, with better odds of finding tastier, sweeter, and fruitier ones in farms around Deltacross. However, if you're looking for the coveted Cocona fruit with Soul Tree colorful water because of the famous folktale that it will extend your life if you gulp its umami-tasting water down as soon as you crack it open, then you're better off prowling about the beaches for wild Cocona trees. Also, remember the buffs or debuffs the Cocona interface gives! They aren't much, sometimes as little as increasing your bladder or boosting sweat production. However, it can be just enough between life and death when paired with other interfaces, as this one persistently lingers in the body for weeks at a time, with no known way to reset or flush it.

Domar Carbey is a version of Carbey created by one of the three smart sisters by crossbreeding with Wood People. It only grows in the Tolerideme region, as it is de facto the base of the Tolerideme economy. From spirits, food export, clothing, etc! Everything comes from Domar Carbey. The wheat itself tastes slightly cheesy, like parmesan, with a rich grain smell that gives an extra oompf to whatever you bake! Although it only goes well with desserts if you're talking about specific ones like Gyut bread or other deserts where it's on the citrusy spectrum. Something like creme brule, pudding, or anything with more yolk taste doesn't seem to work.

Girdol is a plant often used for nari gels for its gut-changing properties or as a tea for its lemony soothing taste. You can find it easily in the wild, but since Toleridemians live higher up, they tend to care for it in their home or community greenhouse instead, given how much they consume to ease their stomach after a large meal.

Gosutam is commonly found as far south as Freeish Kingdom to as far east as Sanbi Kingdom. It's a common tree to have in your yard as it yields small batches of fruit throughout the entire year from its bark, making it easy pickings for even children to snack on. That is where the easy ends for opening the fruit and extracting the edible portion require skills. The exterior's tougher yellow and black skin gives in to a mushy fleshy interior that protects a whitish slimy skin covering the seeds. That whitish, slimy skin is what you want to indulge in for its mangosteen, vanilla-like flavor. However, suppose you press on too hard when opening the fruit, mix in the fleshy interior with it, or somehow get anything else from this fruit on your tongue; then you're in for a bad time! Like chewing on used coffee grounds, the flavor will turn bitter and vegetal. Some parents actively plant this tree for their kids to snack on because it teaches them patience and determination. Some scientists agree with them, while others think there are many other factors with more substantial weight on improving patience than a simple fruit tree that is a bitch and a half to eat.

Greenbread is a dangerous fruit! Not because it is poisonous, but instead, if it falls on you from the usual 15 meters tall tree, it will transform your body into the same jelly consistency of a shapeshifter. That is, if it doesn't overripe and explodes. If it does, then pretty much everything in the vicinity will be covered in golden yellow goo and seeds and then decay, leaving a Durian-like smell that will attract a lot of fauna, which then attracts a lot of beasts. Each tree will only have three or four greenbreads hanging off it at a time, and they take most of the year to reach perfect ripping, with a consistency close to Golden Nugget Jackfruit. However, the taste is comparable to melon pan flavor, while other varieties present flavors closer to banana mixed with pineapple. The seeds, meanwhile, taste like cacao when roasted. The fruit's leftover core is also a binding agent commonly used for creating bone wood or glue.

Gyut was considered a staple good by Forway officials as they established the value of a single pearl ball equal to one Bagabone (about one kg) of freshly picked gyut. Its sweet-tart, acidic taste resembles cherry mixed with cranberries, and granny smith apples are a favorite across the kingdoms and also by the fauna too. Some restaurants feed their livestock nothing but gyut for their remarkable property of making the meat sweeter, giving it a caramelized characteristic when roasted in open flames.

Lakata tastes like roasted grapes, but don't let that pleasant taste fool you! It is good at overdriving the parasympathetic nervous system, and if you're not careful enough, your heart will stop. Many adventurers and gatherers alike spent endless hours searching away for them around rotting trees as they are considered the bread and butter of many nari gels.

Lehuj is the go-to remedy and nari gel to deal with hungover, toxins or poisons for its unmatched liver-enhancing properties. Given how easy and abundant it works, some also use it for other digestive benefits or as a catalyst for different nari gel reactions. It could also be used as a terrible punishment if you inject it into someone's food or drink by overdriving their liver and forcing it shut down soon after; the difference between remedy and poison is just the dosage, after all.

Lolish is a favorite of Gandew, with some Darfaries making the track all the way to the semi-arid desert transitional zone to pick up their own lolish because that's just who they are. The ginger-flavored root goes well in their cuisine and drinks to warm you up on frigid desert nights.

Lonllow is like Yabucas, where it is prone to mutations, but instead of creating new variants, they all result in the plant withering away. The Buhraies' ancient species gave the name Lonllow after they made it by tampering with their soul interface and mixing it with different species. Scientists believe they were trying to create a plant with high energetic content and palatable to their taste, but it failed harshly, leaving it a highly finicky plant to grow and farm. Now only a few families have figured out what is needed to produce them at a scale. However, even so, they can't match demand. Sorefaries alone seem to nearly go berserk and spend all their balls just to get a taste of the caramelly banana flavor from the small-looking blueish-looking fruit.

Magina is a potent mind-altering drug that Forway banned, given the societal risks it imposes. Users experience a blissful state where they live out their dreams or nightmares if they have a terrible trip in such a realistic fashion that afterward, these people will swear the event actually happened to them rather than realizing it was all just a vivid dream. Some highly renowned scientists still research it to cure specific mental ailments like PTSD by trying to reign in and control the drug, but success has been spotty as each individual reacts so uniquely to it it's hard to find patterns. If you see someone completely zoned out, even after you punch them in the face, they are definitely using Magina, with it most likely being bought on the black market from the Black Magina faction.

Nica is a favorite of many chefs! Its seeds change taste from a cumin-like taste when it's bright pink and unripe to a more black-pepper taste profile when it is ripened with a more profound wine color. Some people found a use for it on nari gel as it has properties to change skin color and to repeal insects as well—although the person using it tends to smell strongly of Nica peppers too, so if they don't like it, they are better off using something else.

Panita is another mushroom that disguises a terrible secret behind its pleasant smell and taste of blood orange. It makes you bleed from everywhere, and if you keep ingesting it, it turns into melting skin, flesh, and bones, and you will feel most of it before you die. Quite pleasant indeed! Forway has considered banning this in the past, but then it would mean they couldn't use it either to punish shitty people, so it's still legal to this day.

Purplebread is a food staple of Sundeath and surrounding semi-arid regions. The small-sized tree, or large-sized plant, has a trunk covered in spikes and pointed leaves covered in a clear sticky fluid that causes hives solely if don't consume its fruit. The fruit it bears is brownish and covered in hairy spikes that won't tear your skin. It doesn't look that appetizing, especially when paired with the pungent smell akin to the fart of someone who ate too many eggs. However, locals, adventurers, and merchants alike know a secret! Just rub the fruit on the sand until the brownish skin is smooth as a baby's butt, and the smell will disappear! Opening the fruit will reveal a pinkish-goopy interior that tastes between strawberry and raspberry. The purple flesh is kinda flavorless, but you should still eat it as it is pretty nutritious or a must if you sweat a bucket.

Rakuja is a vine that often has a symbiotic mutualistic relationship with the trees it infests. Found only in colder climates, it helps the host trees by injecting an antifreeze gel it creates when it detects lower temps. This relationship works great in regions like Gandew, Fuhrair, and Old Fuhrair. The same can't be said with Tolerideme, where Wood People took over the land. The relationship between them always turns Amensalistic. Not only have scientists figured out that this antifreeze gel is an excellent toxin for killing Wood People, but they also have their own vines, which they use to remove and kill off any Rakuja that tries to grow on them. Nonetheless, people drool over the tangy, tart flavor fruits with citrusy notes and heavy aromatic smells! Be it dried or not, you can find them across all kingdoms, but depending on where you are, be ready to fork over a lot of balls to fill up your belly on Rakuja. If you don't have much money, you can get your fix with some Rakuja hard juice that will get you drunk too.

Siguash tastes akin to Nam Dok Mai mango but far smaller, with a hint of pomegranate. Some intentionally leave the fruit to overripe into a tangy yellow color as the extra sugars ferment and create an on-the-go alcoholic drink. Just watch how many fermented Siguash you're popping in, as it doesn't show mercy even if you're a troglodyte of a Darfaries.

Tastyleaf is an absolute mega chungus of a tree, measuring about 104 meters tall, with girth alone in the upper 40 meters. No other tree comes even close to its size or properties. It was discovered inside what had to be a not-so-secret garden by one of the first tribes of humans who fled the Buhraies plains. Accounts of that history were passed down orally, so narratives diverged on whether humans killed the Buhraies garden owners and took over before they could call for help or if it was simply abandoned instead. Either way, this tree granted humans a sanctuary against the hungry beast and fauna as it has similar light properties to fost stone, including lighting up when it rains and repelling beasts and fauna.

The caveat is that it doesn't produce seeds, and trying to graft doesn't work either, so now it is a highly protected tree by locals and Forway. Why Forway? Because the leaves are also delicious! Shredded smoked Bagarisa butt meat topped with leaves in hard gyut bread is proof of that! The leaves have a lettuce texture with a flavor profile on a spectrum between black pepper, salt, garlic, onion, jalapeno, and green curry—the flavors vary depending on the harvest, leaf age, and from where it is picked, leaving some people to dedicate their whole lives and expertise to this trade. Except for the leaves rot quickly, leaving anyone outside Tastyleaf only tasting the dried, ground-up version of the leaves, a popular spice sold across all kingdoms.

Tenderthrough is the name humans gave this peculiar-shaped fruit tree after penetrating their way into the islands southeast of Sanbi and purging the ancient species that lived there. It tastes very close to papaya, with the seeds still being used to cleanse and heal one's guts far more cheaply than using Body Restore or other interfaces. There are plantations in the Freeish kingdom, but it just doesn't taste as good as the ones from the islands, so get your ass in the next boat to the islands if you want to experience its most authentic flavor!

Tibou is also used for nari gels, but mostly to make your sweat have antibacterial and antifungal properties. It's essentially like taking a shower from the inside out, with self-aware adventurers resorting to using it to smell good when quickly passing through town! Otherwise, it's the go-to plant as the base for soaps, shampoos, and even textiles as well as its cotton-like fiber is quite comfortable, albeit not as durable.

Soul Tree is the most well know tree across all four kingdoms. Its shiny, metallic-looking bark is unique-looking, and so does its colorful green timber when cut down. The green wood has similar-ish soul leakage prevention properties as black sapphire, but it doesn't even come close to the same toughness. Still, it's far more available and doesn't come with the land-decaying impact! Several tree nurseries around the Freeish kingdom are dedicated to it as its demand is always at an all-time high, both for decorative and practical purposes. Soul trees are common in the wild, too, albeit you will have to deal with the trunk people attached to it as they won't go down without a fight.

Steen can be easily found in the mouth of Sanbi citizens as they love to chew on the stems to pass the time. It has a calming, slightly chilling effect, with some Darfaries also picking up the habit. Although it is not popular in Gandew, users become lazier and lethargic, especially when chewing the plant leaves where the effect is more potent. You can also see it in nari gels, with both hunters and Sanbi guards loving to plaster the tip of their arrows with it to toxify their prey and unruly people into slowing down and chilling out instead.

Tyr affects the nervous system like Lakata, but it focuses its effects on messing with the sympathetic nervous system and reality perception instead. The worst effect people report is hearing or seeing disturbing things while feeling locked inside your body because you're trying to fight or run away from it, but your fight-or-flight doesn't work. It's not too far off from sleep paralysis. There are other properties from Tyr as well, like triggering narcoleptic sleep, but isolating it has been challenging. A research paper reported being able to hear others' thoughts as well, but the scientists who tried it could not replicate it and chalked it up to a bad trip instead.

Yabuca fruit, nowadays, refers to a specific coveted variety named Jonabuca, created by a family of scientists by grafting the best properties of the thousands of wild types as the Yabuca tree seems way too willing to mutate. Some believe a sneeze around a seedling is enough to change the flavor profile of the future fruits to snot, which later a scientist confirmed was indeed the case after investing way too much time in such a specific endeavor.

The highly coveted variety Jonabuca is farmed intensively in the Freeish kingdom for its consistently sweet appley flavor and crispy texture. Some of the other types are still considered tasty, with some people swearing they are better than Jonabuca! These different variants often have multiple tastes or textures, are inconsistent in their yields, or look or are straight-up unappetizing—with a notorious Yabuca tree being the perfect example after it sprouted by an outhouse and began producing Yabucas that literally tasted like shit. Regardless, anyone with extra balls in their pocket will fork over to get the coveted variety instead to sink their teeth into. It's just like the ad plastered over the fruit shop that says, "If it ain't Jonabuca, then it ain't Yabuca!"