Oyowort   {OY-yo-wurt}

plant of the moon Yorok

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Tiny rippling fractally-growing pale green leaves that thrive in closely-connected carpets across all of Yorok's Oyo crater, the largest in its crater collection. 

The name for the crater was in part crafted in reflection of how the plan generally grows; that is to say, two small circular carpets close together and connected by multiple branches of roots. These connect in turn to other pairs, and so they synergise across the crater in a constant support of each other as they pass nutrients, water, and information wherever these are needed. 

As of now 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 flowers, only the carpeting leafgrowth beneath. But this tisane is, in a broad range of forms, consumed now in strong quantities on Yorok - as well as certain circles of both Oraea and farther frontiers. Though it only grows with any trustable success in the Oyo crater, the cut stems regrow with a steady swiftness.

This plant is known across the cosmos by a wide range of colloquial names including Wortoyo, Yotro, Otro, Wort, ‘Aint-the-worst’, moosh, mushunganah, Whatever You Have Left, and wyhl (said like ‘wheeee-ehlll…’). It is the local example of a classic kind of brew found across the cosmos and history, the more rough, bootleg-type ‘tisane with occasional small extra awareness effects’, and is already available anywhere on Yorok and many places else.


When foraging on Earth, substitute red clover.