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Berries is the shared common name for plants whose fruit have a strong medicinal effect on pokémon and frequently humans, despite the plants having no common origin. In addition to restorative purposes, berries are used in cooking or as rewards while training pokémon. While fresh berries are the most potent (and often tastiest), many kinds of berry can be dried and retain some of their benefit. There is a loose distinction drawn between those berries that act fast enough to be used in pokémon battles and those that don't.

Battle Berries

Cherri

Cherri plants are hemiparasitic vines that favour deciduous trees as hosts. When not fruiting they are most easily identified by the thick green stem descending the trunk - or more rarely thick low curving branches - of their host. Their leaves are flat and normally tiled against branches. Cherri plants produce dense clusters of highly fragrant white flowers in early autumn and fruit from mid autumn to early spring depending on local climate.

Cherri berries are 1 to 2 cm across, bright red and contain a small pip. Since they grow high above the ground they can be difficult to harvest although this is slightly mitigated by each cluster containing a dozen or more. Cherri berries are one of the few berries not to lose potency when dried, which combined with each plant producing so many balances out their seasonal nature. Their flesh is very spicy when fresh, slightly milder once dried, and a common cooking spice in Sehtoan cuisine. Consuming a single berry cures most paralysis.

Chesto

Chesto plants are tall trees that favour the cooler parts of the island. Young trees are often mistaken for other plants when not fruiting but mature trees are easily identified by their distinctive retiform bark. Since chesto trees take almost a decade to reach maturity they are rarely farmed but saplings are often planted individually in gardens. Chesto flowers are dull catkins of pale green florets drooping from outer branches in winter when the wind can spread the pollen.

Chesto berries are large fruit 8 to 10 cm across with a tough fibrous skin that softens as they ripen in spring. The berries are shaped like a spinning top with a dull blue upper portion and tan base. Inside the skin the fruit is split into six segments surrounded by a milky fluid. Berries are harvested by hitting with a long stick or using Flying pokémon and roasted segments soaked in hot chesto milk are common street vendor food. The flesh has a distinctive dry flavour and eating a segment or drinking the milk cures sleep.

Leppa

Leppa plants are small, deciduous trees found wild in the non-coastal parts of Sehto and also commonly grown in orchards. Their foliage is dense and flowers form on inner as well as outer branches, meaning that harvest requires significant climbing and is often pokémon assisted. While some orchards adjust growing conditions to lengthen the season wild leppa plants flower in spring to summer and produce fruit in summer and autumn. Leppa flowers are pale pink with five widely separated petals and occur in small clumps.

Leppa berries are 2 to 5 cm across with thin red and yellow mottled skin and crunchy flesh. Wild leppa berries tend to be slower growing and thus have a more concentrated flavour than farmed berries, making them significantly more expensive. While dried leppa berries are common in trail mix they lose their medicinal properties; fortunately the fruit stores well without this if kept in a cool dark place and is readily available out of season. Pulped leppa berries are sweetened and mixed with carbonated water to make leppanade, a common beverage. Leppa berries restore energy.

Lum

Lum plants are unassuming small trees known mostly for their isolationist nature. The usefulness of their berries have prompted many attempts to farm them, however while lum plants can be grown in a variety of climates they tend to sicken if grown in close proximity to others of their kin. Researchers have been unable to determine why; the prevailing theory is that lum plants produce chemicals that hinder growth of their rivals, potentially to prevent disease. Large, waxy pale flowers are produced intermittently throughout the year on the tips of branches. The blooms are strongly scented to lure the Bug type pokémon that pollinate the plant.

Lum berries are 3 to 4 cm across with a slightly waxy green skin. The flesh is very firm and slightly rubbery unless the berry is overripe and has a somewhat tart flavour not typically favoured by many humans or pokémon. This the berry is very nutritious and the stone germinates readily after passing through a pokémon's digestive tract. Despite not being used in cooking lum berries are highly sought after for being able to cure all status aliments while fresh. Dried lum berries tend to only be effective on milder aliments such as confusion; this coupled with their relative rarity and irregular flowering makes lum berries expensive.

Other Berries

Tamato

Tamato plants are a climbing plant strongly suspected to be a natural hybrid of wiki and tomato plants. Despite this attempts to artificially cross the two have yet to produce similar plants and some biologists still doubt their hybrid status, despite confirming the close relation to wiki plants. Tamato plants require some form of support either from stakes or another plant. Flowers vary from orange to deep pink and have six widely splayed petals surrounding a tubular centre.

Tamato berries vary widely from 5 to 10 cm across and are bright red when fully ripe and have a smooth skin covered with fleshy nodules. The thin skin is a little tough and generally removed if the berry is being eaten raw but softens when cooked. The reddish-purple flesh is pulpy and its taste resembles a spicy tomato, the source of the berry's common name. Unlike most berries tamato berries do not seem to have notable medicinal qualities for pokémon and its status as a pokémon berry is thus called into question by some individuals. Despite this the fruit are still highly sought after by wild pokémon as well as being a notable ingredient in Sehtoan cuisine.

Wiki

Wiki plants are woody climbing vines that favour the warmer parts of Sehto. In the wild they use rocks and dead trees as their primary support; wiki farms use wooden frames raised high enough for pickers to comfortably work beneath. Wiki flowers are delicate blue blossoms that grow on thin tendrils extending from the stem of the vine and held clear of the leaves.

Wiki berries are 8 to 10 cm across with a vividly purple skin covered in small lumps that contain the seeds. The skin is thin but rubbery and generally considered inedible. The inner flesh is soft enough to be consumed with a spoon, somewhat tangy, and fades from a darker purple hue at the edges to a translucent blue in the centre. While the fruit does accelerate healing it acts too slowly to be useful in battle or emergency situations. However compounds extracted from wiki berries are the primary ingredient in healing potions and wiki berries are therefore widely farmed.

[WIP]

  • Pecha Berry: Cures Poison
  • Rawst Berry: Cures Burn
  • Aspear Berry: Cures Frozen
  • Persim Berry: Cures Confusion
  • Oran Berry: Restores a little health
  • Sitrus Berry: Restores more health
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