A Rathilien Flora

16 March 1998

Arboreal drift:

Cloud-of-thorn brier: "while the cloud-of-thorn briers help up their impaled blossoms above tangled shadows. The berries beneath these fragile white flowers already glistened in the moonlight like dark drops of blood. Birds who had eaten them during the day clung to the spiked branches singing ecstatically on and on untiltheir hearts faltered and stopped."

Dorith: page 123

Host trees: A flurry of pale green new leaves leaped into the air and vanished, golden veins flashing, into the upper mist.
"But when will they fall?" asked Jame, staring after them.
"Not until they reach their winter host tree far to the south. They'll come back in the spring."

Mosaic lichen:

Vampire rose: