flora

Edible Plants

Rice (Kome):

  • Staple crop, paddies create landscape
  • Straw used for countless purposes

Soy Plants (Daizu):

  • Source of tofu, miso, soy sauce - fundamental to cuisine

Vegetables:

  • Daikon radish, carrot, turnip, burdock root, lotus root
  • Cabbage, bok choy, spinach, various greens
  • Pumpkin, cucumber, eggplant (not toxic in this world), sweet potato
  • NOT Present: Tomatoes, onions, garlic, grapes (toxic to cats)

Herbs:

  • Shiso (perilla), mitsuba (Japanese parsley), ginger, wasabi
  • Catmint/Catnip (mild effect, used in tea and as garnish)
  • Silvervine (similar to catnip, stronger effect)

Mushrooms:

  • Shiitake, maitake, enoki, matsutake (prized)
  • Foraged from forests, also cultivated
  • Toxic species don’t exist in this world