Flame-tree

The flame-tree was a type of three-hundred-meter tall tree. It had bright-blue branches that supported many long, fragrant, red and orange hanging vines. In 232 BBY, several flame-trees grew in a garden module of the Starlight Beacon space station, where each of them formed a distinct ecosystem harboring bioluminescent birds and insects. That year, Jedi Masters Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann took a walk through the garden module, with the flame-trees at times making the latter feel like he was standing inside a campfire and atop an inferno.
==Biology and appearance==
The flame-tree was a type of tall, thin, and elegant tree that could reach around three hundred meters in height. It had bright-blue branches from which hanged a multitude of vines stretching from the tree's crown to the ground. The vines were in different hues of red and orange with graceful gradients throughout their length, and they had an incense-like fragrance.
==Flame-trees in the galaxy==
In 232 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of The High Republic: Light of the Jedi to 232 BBY. several flame-trees grew in one of the garden modules of the Galactic Republic's Outer Rim Territories space station Starlight Beacon. At the base of the large transparisteel bubble that formed the module, they had been planted in the soil from Qualai, a small, low-gravity planet situated on the edge of the Outer Rim. The trees reached all the way to the garden module's top, with air currents stirring their vines so that they gently moved back and forth. Each tree formed its own ecosystem, with small bioluminescent birds and insects flying between the vines like sparks.
That year, during the dedication of the Starlight Beacon, humanStar Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles of the Jedi Jedi Masters Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann took a walk through the garden module with the flame-trees. They ascended a spiraling walkway that led through the module, and at the center of the structure, the combination of the trees' presence and open space being visible through the enclosing transparisteel made Mann feel like he was standing inside a campfire and peering out into the night. Moments later, after Kriss had departed, leaving her fellow Jedi at the top of the spiraling pathway, Mann again looked out into space, with the churning, rustling, and whipping flame-trees below him invoking a sense of standing atop an inferno.
==Behind the scenes==
Flame-trees appeared in the 2021 novel Light of the Jedi, written by Charles Soule as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's Phase I.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Light of the Jedi 
==Notes and references==
Category:Trees