Plants of Genua

Description
Cereus is a night-blooming plant with silvery-white flowers that smell strongly of vanilla..

Cultivation
It is found only in warm, damp, swampy conditions, and favours Genua and the Counterweight Continent.

Uses
Cereus causes mild confusion, and is best mixed with other ingredients, such as Skullcap to enhance its effect.

Description
Clematis is a tall herb, with striped red and green leaves and large white flowers.

Cultivation
It is found mostly in the warm, damp, swampy conditions of Genua.

Uses
This herb when ingested, irritates the eyes and throat giving rise to a flow of tears that eventually become so severe that the person drowns in their own bodily fluids.

Description
A low-growing herb with dark, shining, smooth leaves and pure white blossoms that rise directly from the roots.

Cultivation
Hellebore seems to like the swampy conditions of Genua and does not grow elsewhere.

Uses
Hellebore is a violent narcotic, and thus can result in stupor, coma, convulsions or death.

Description
Hemlock is a tall herb with an unpleasant mousy smell. It has small white flowers that branch off a yellow stem.

Cultivation
Grows wild in the plains that surround Ankh-Morpork as well as in some parts of Genua.

Uses
It causes a general feeling of illness, which can last for some time after ingestion. Most potent when combined with snake venom, but also mixes well with other herbs.

Description
A low herb, with lush, dark green leaves and tiny blue flowers. The flowers have a strange helmet like shape to them.

Cultivation
Skullcap is found mostly in humid, swampy conditions.

Uses
Once treated, ingestion can cause acute confusion and disorientation. This effect can be increased by combining it with Cereus and various other ingredients.

Description
A tall firm herb with large, whitish leaves and nearly globular green-yellow flowers.

Cultivation
Wormwood grows all over the Disc, from shady areas in woods and forests to the swamps of Genua.

Uses
It causes strange yet very specific hallucinations when treated correctly. Is the main ingredient in Absinthe.