Dholdra's Breath

Basic Information

Anatomy

Dholdra's Breath grows on short fat stalks. It has no leaves and develops between four and nine flowers on the surface of the bulbous stalk. The skin of the stalk is dense and tough to cut or break through. The flowers have around a dozen petals.

Genetics and Reproduction

Desert pollinators help different plants to breed. Once ready seeds are ready in a flower, a plant will close the petals of that flower and remove nearly all the moisture from the flower back into the stalk. The flower then falls off the stalk and rolls and tumbles with the wind until it ends up in puddle or river or some other source of water where it rehydrates and establishes roots, then develops a new stalk.

Ecology and Habitats

This tough flowering plant is found in the desert region west of the Illeros mountains.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Dholdra's Breath stores moisture in its fat stalk for hard times. To protect itself from being eaten, in addition to its tough outer skin, it produces a chemical that is toxic to the animals that would otherwise consume it.

Additional Information

Uses, Products & Exploitation

The flowers of Dholdra's Breath can be rolled together and smoked or steeped in a tea. Both produce a bitter taste many hume's find unpleasant, but it also causes a euphoric high that has led hume's to treat it as a recreational drug.
Dholdra's Breath also has medicinal properties, though these were discovered entirely by accident when a plague struck the hume desert nation of Kuhl. Cultural practices in the nation forbid women from consuming the plant and it is popular among men. Eventually, it was noticed that men who used Dholdra's Breath were not only less likely to contract the illness, but also were far more likely to recover once they began showing symptoms.

Average Height

About 0.5 meters

Average Length

Stalks: 0.3 meters; flowers: about 9 to 14 cm

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

The inside of its flower petals are a strong sky blue color that fades to strip of white, which in turn fades into ocean blue that covers the edge of the petals.