"Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work." - Thomas E. Lovejoy
Because of the frequency with which many people are visiting this page to link to new herbs that were released by the School of Art into the biosphere of our fair nation here is a much more convenient link to reach the new herbs page until such time they can be added to the database at large:
Please be aware that this page and Twokay's database might not be in sync for a while. It would be wise to check both sources for the time being.
"It is the height of frustration to approach a funny-looking plant, hoping for a rare herb, but only to realize upon closer examination that it is naught but flora unfamiliar to you, yet common to the region. It is to make one scream as if one had covered oneself with desert scarab beetles." -- Anonymous Scribe, found in the margins of "Weekee's Guide to the Herbaceous Flora of Egypt".
Herbs can be found where other trees and plants are. Know your common trees and plants so that you can tell that a given plant is an herb.There can appear more of herbs of any type or two of different types.
Clicking on a rare herb will give its name as "some kind of herb". You can eat it fresh from the earth, which will provide you with some benefit to stats for about 3 minutes. If you have the Foraging skill, you also have a menu "Foraging...". If you harvest the herb correctly you'll get 1-7 herbs in your inventory and the plant will disappear.
January Herb event! Some new forageable herbs/spices have been added to the game. See the 'Newherbs' link below for our storehouse of new images. Please add images of new herbs here for now so we can keep it all together and simplify identification. We can categorize these later on after the event has played out.
Use Twokay's database at http://herbs.highlyillogical.org/ for easy graphical identification
There are four main categories of plants, and several subcategories. It should be quite obvious which category your herb fits into, without video card settings/lighting having much of an effect. Please keep that in mind when sorting herbs.
Blue vs. Green Leaves
If you aren't sure whether a single-leaf, multiple-stem plant qualifies as green, list it in both places with a note that you have done so. Bluish-green is now considered green, in order to avoid people running afoul of monitor differences or differing judgements about what qualifies.
Colored Leaves
Color refers to Red, Orange, Brown, Yellow/Gold, Blue, Purple/Pink/Violet, White/Gray and Black. When attempting to determine color, judge only by the top surface of the leaves. This means something with leaves which are green on top and red underneath is considered green. It also means something with green stalks and little pink flowers is not green.
Submitting JPGs
Submit pictures if you are able to get a clearer screenshot than what is shown. Also please turn off time of day lighting, adjust light intensity to max and place 1 straw beside plant as a measurement of scale. Also, please crop pictures to 280-width before uploading.