#easternkingdomsplants

Lunar Festival celebrants traditionally weave the flower of luck and other blossoms into flower crowns to wear during the holiday [Quest: Crown of Good Fortune, Item: Crown of Everlasting Fortune].

Rot blossoms can be distilled into a potent liquor called zombie juice, which is said to be strong enough to raise the dead [Quest: Gather Rot Blossoms, Quest: Juice Delivery]. Whether or not that is merely a metaphor for the strength of the drink, it is heavily implied a necromancer once used zombie juice to animate an abomination [Quest: Zombie Juice, Quest: Juice Delivery].

The bloodberry bush is a wild plant that grows all over Azeroth. Although it is usually considered something of a nuisance wherever it sprouts, the bush’s berries are coveted by both chefs and alchemists [Quest: Open for Business]. Most commonly, chefs use bloodberries as a key ingredient in some culinary delicacies, the most famous of which is the bloodberry tart [Item: Bloodberry Tart, World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook, pg. 149]. Alchemists, however, like to use bloodberries – specifically, a unique type of bloodberry native to the Isle of Quel’Danas – for another reason. When exposed to the energies of the Sunwell, the plant develops special properties that can then be distilled and made into an elixir that magnifies one’s abilities [Quest: Open for Business, Item: Bloodberry Elixir].

Both the flora and fauna of the Plaguelands have been deeply ravaged by the Scourge – even today, Scourge constructs work to continuously re-plague the land, polluting and killing much of the region’s plant life [Quest: Postponing the Inevitable]. That said, a small variety of vegetation still grows in the Plaguelands, undeterred by the efforts of the undead. One such plant, called banshee’s bells, grows along the eastern bank of the Thondroril River [Quest: Greasing the Wheel]. This flower’s tenacity in spite of its environment is particularly fascinating as the only thing banshee’s bells are known for is their delicate nature [Item: Banshee’s Bells].