Glossary • Flora and Fauna and More-A • Letters Oa~Oz
Oyowurt
{OY-yo-wurt}
Appearance: carpets of greenery composed of leaves connected in miniscule fractals
Tisane ingredients: the leaves, either in attached fractal formations or loose leaf matter
Home: Yorok (moon of the planet Oraea)
Likes: only the rich, large, still-somewhat-uninvestigated OyO crater of Yorok
Aya ingredient equivalent: Red clover
Grows as tiny fractals of pale green leaves. These thrive in closely-connected carpets that caress across a great crater on the moon Yorok, where air currents from the west layer the soil of the crater with a unique collection of minerals. The name for that crater - OyO - comes in harmonious part from how the plant itself grows: that is to say, two small circular carpets close together, connected by multiple branches of roots. These connect in turn to other pairs, and so the circular carpets synergise across the crater in constant support of each other as they pass nutrients, water, and information to and all through their plant community. Flavor and other potencies increase if a complete fractal is used to brew the tisane (rather than leaves alone),
Though it only grows on this moon, the cut stems regrow with a steady swiftness; and when the cut fractals are dried, they come back to fresh and vivid life when reintroduced to water. This is something of a unique quality especially present in the plant life of York - a capacity for deep dormancy that simply awaits the alchemies of water.
It is of some small note that we have no notion why zygomorphic flowers of more metallic hues emerge from the branches during some winters, lasting even sometimes unto the last eves before summer. So far no tisane has been successfully made from these.
Oyowurt is of course but the local example of a classic kind of brew found across both the cosmos and our history, a more rough and bootleg-type "tisane with occasional small extra awareness effects" as might be politely said. It is, in a broad range of forms, consumed in strong quantities on Yorok - as well as certain circles of Oraea and farther frontiers - and knows a range of colloquial names including Wortoyo, Yotro, Otro, Mountain Tea, Mountain Wort, ‘Aint-the-worst’, mash, moosh, mushunga, Whatever You Have Left, and wyhl (like 'well', pronounced ‘weeee-ehlll…’).