Followers Guide to Wasteland Flora

This file pertains to the chemical composition of certain plants in the wasteland.  In the event that medical attention must be administered without proper tools, such as a chem dispenser, please refer to the following pages for practical use on these plants:

1. Broc Flower
2. Xander Root
3. Agave
4. Barrel Cactus
5. Datura Root
6. Prickly Pear Fruit
7. Pinyon Nuts
8. Buffalo Gourd
9. Punga Fruit
10. Coyote Tobacco
11. Mutfruit
12. Tato
13. Banana Yucca

A quick refresh on this guide, and the average follower should never find themselves without the ability to provide aid!

## Broc Flower

-4 Bicaridine

-11 Dexaline

-4 Saline-Glucose Solution

   One half of the key components for Stimpacks, this life saving plant is attributed to its combination of Bicaridine, Dexalin, and Saline Glucose, doing the work of a paramedic in a minutes notice.  Even as a plant, these can quickly close up wounds and restore blood.  A MUST for any would-be doctor.

## Xander Root

-11 Anti-Toxin

-4 Saline-Glucose Solution

   One half of the key components of Stimpacks, Xander Root, when ground up, functions as an Anti-Toxin and blood restorative, which makes it a great counter-measure for the poisonous critters of the wastes.  Some theorize the actual roots are what cause visual problems when made into what tribesmen call "Healing Powder," but this needs to be examined.

## Agave

-Kelotane

-Lipolicide

   The common suggestion for burns on the trail, agave carries similar components for burn ointment in them, which is useful for the small army of robots the Great War left behind.  It also carries Lipolicide, which is good for weight loss, though it is NO substitute for excercise and healthy eating.  Nutrient value is practically non-existant.

## Barrel Cactus

-6 Nutriment

-6 Calomel

-3 Radium

   Interesting thing is that the presence of Calomel can quickly purge toxins from the body, it also CAUSES the individual to get sick if there are no toxins, leading to the common reaction of vomiting.  The presence of Radium doesn't help either, yet it is also one of the key components for Healing Poultice:  I suspect the Anti-Toxins balance out the effect to reduce vomiting.

## Datura Harvest

-19 Morphine

-7 Mushroom Hallucinogen

-16 Toxin

-4 Nutriment

    The Morphine is valuable... but we'd need to seperate the Toxins and Hallucinogens first.  Tribals brew this as a "Tea" for visions.  More likely to kill them than anything.

## Prickly Pear Fruit

-2 Vitamin

-11 Nutriment

-3 Water

   A decent foodsource when on the road... hydrates and gives a miniscule vitamin supplement for the road.

## Pinyon Nuts

-3 Flour

   Interesting... it seems that Pinyon Nuts can be used as a substitute for Wheat flour... I'd have to do further tests to see if this could be useful for those with a Gluten allergy, but I suspect not.  Worse, it could affect those with Nut allergies.

## Buffalo Gourd

-11 Water

-3 Vitamin

-11 Nutriment

    An excellent source of water, and likely safer than old world assumptions of drinking cactus juice.  Other uses involve fermenting into some substance simply called "Buffalo," or using it in a makeshift tourniquette.

## Punga Fruit

-10 Charcoal

-6 Phosphorus

-3 Nutriment

-4 Mutadone

     I'm not sure when these plants came from, but their existance is nothing short of a miracle: the absorb radiation as good if not BETTER than cave fungus.  I may need to do some tests, as their chemical composition: charcoal, phosphorus and mutadone is curious, but for now these ought to be a MUST for our stock.

## Coyote Tobacco

-3 Nicotine

-3 Nutriment

    The raw, un-processed form of what many cowboys and frontiersmen call "Tobacco Chew," this carries with it all the chemicals you'd expect: mainly, nicotine.  Addiction, much like cigars and cigarettes, is an ever present danger, but they insist on chewing the stuff and spitting it out into spitoons.  Not really hygienic.

## Mutfruit

-6 Nutriment

-4 Radium

    The signature "mutated fruit" of the wasteland, Mutfruit carries with a bulbous exterior when freshly harvested, but in certain climates it carries a crunchy exterior.  This "juicy" variant carries with it decent nutrional value, but with one catch: Radiation.  If it weren't vital for the creation of Super Stimpacks, I would not recommend keeping these around.  I HAVE been told certain recipes can create a radiation-free product, but we'd have to examine that closer.

## Tato

-3 Vitamin

-6 Nutriment

   This is either some bastardization of mutation or an effort for crossbreeding between a tomato and a potato.  Regardless, the "Tato" as many call it carries with it the hardy, starchy interior of a potato with the skin and slight juice of a tomato.  Nutritional value is unremarkable, unfortunately.

   The real quesiton is: is this a fruit, or a vegetable?

## Banana Yucca

-11 Vitamin

-6 Sugar

-11 Nutriment

   Not quite the same banana as the standard fruit, the Yucca in this region is nevertheless just as healthy: it lacks the potassium inside in favor of nutritional content.  In fact, just one full fruit picking is enough to bring someone back from starvation... though excercise is recommended afterwards.

- Written by Goldrobo