Physical Characteristics: light golden brown bark and shimmering golden needles and cones give the golden pine its name.

Special qualities: The inner bark has a spicy and slightly floral flavor. It is stripped from early branches, dried, and sold as a spice. The golden pine nuts are a favorite for cooking, as they have a lightly spicy flavor.

lifecycle/ growth time: The golden Pine takes 8-10 years to fully mature to cone-bearing age. Once the tree flowers and starts producing both male and female cones it is 

Ecosystem: The Golden Pine resides in large copses and forests. Living well with other conifers and all manner of forest plants and creatures. Many birds and rodents happily make homes in a Golden pine's branches and trunk. Feeding on golden pine nuts for nutrition and good health.

Basic Requirements: Acidic, well-draining but well-watered soil. Golden pines need plenty of sun, and at least residual magic to 

Alchemical or Magical uses: The needles of the Golden pine are used in herbal healing remedies. The cones are used as magical reagents for healing or explosive spells. 

Legends and spiritual connections: Many hold the Golden Pine as a gift from Agetunitas, and use its wood for statues to the god, as well as the needles in incense offerings.

Physical Characteristics: The tree produces both hard and soft wood, as well as an alchemically useful resin. It can often be mistaken for a monster in the dark woods, between the reddish resin drips and the sound the wind makes whistling through its branches and across its scarred bark. 

Special qualities: The soft wood develops into magically active resin the closer the trees are to a magical energy source. The pockets can weep resin through thin spots on the tree. Harvesters make incisions through the bark at the most magically resonant spots, where the resin will ooze out.

lifecycle/ growth time: The trees take 15-20 years to begin producing resin from their softwood and are unlikely to do so when grown alone or outside a magically shrouded forest. Once the resin starts to weep, it must be harvested slowly, or risk damaging the tree by cutting it too deeply or too often.

Ecosystem: The tree is an integral part of the ancient Tranquil forest ecosystem. There are other locations on different continents where the Weeping Resinous Fang Tree can be found, but all replicate the same conditions: Old-growth forest, shrouded in magical energy, with plenty of 

Basic Requirements: Close-quartered forest conditions, slightly acidic soil, plenty of rainfall, and ample magical essence.

Alchemical or Magical uses: The resin can be used in various preparations. The liquid sap can be processed into a shiny coating for wood, like Laquer. It is popularly used in Vratorian woodwork but must be handled with extreme caution. 

The resin, once dried and ground, can be used in a variety of topical poisons. Compounds in the resin cause weeping blisters when in direct contact with fresh skin, allowing other toxins to quickly and easily enter the body.

Golden Pines and Weeping Resinous Fang Trees

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Name: Golden Pines

Physical Characteristics: light golden brown bark and shimmering golden needles and cones give the golden pine its name.



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