Honeyroot

== Exact Text ==
This plant common to northern and central Yttarria has large tuberous roots. The sap of these tubers is very sweet and tastes something like honey. This sap is often boiled down into syrups and candies; it is the major sweetener in Cathness, and commonly used throughout Yttarria. The rich use sugar and honey, the poor use honeyroot. 
Honeyroot is also used to brew flowermede, a cheap alcoholic beverage. Peasants drink flowermede in the spring and summer and beer in the fall and winter. Poorer townsfolk also drink what they call root ale or bud water. As flowermede often smells like the local wildflowers, different brews are quite distinctive. The best flowermede is prized even by the aristocracy, while the cheap stuff smells like cheap perfume. All of it can get you drunk. 
Game Uses: There are often strong local rivalries centered around the local brews. People have been known to sabotage and destroy rival breweries. Heroes could be [hired] to guard or harass a local brewery.
== References ==
* Plants of Yrth
Category:Plants