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Aliantha, also called Treasure-Berries, are a type of gnarled waist-high bush with leaves spread and pointed like a holly's. Small viridian blooms cover the plant with blue-green fruit the size of blueberries.

The berries are highly nutritious and a blessing of the Land, being the last to die and the first to grow anywhere in the land, except the Spoiled Plains. A person could survive on only a few of these berries a day. They have a tangy-peach flavor.

The people of the Land have a saying which goes:

Eat and spread the seeds over the Earth so that the aliantha may spread.

When people eat the berries they ensure they spread the seeds so later generations can enjoy the berries.

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