/lit/ - Literature

>>9611719
Yes, minerals and gem stones another part of the language of fantasy literature. I already knew many of them: amethyst, sapphire, emerald, onyx, lapis lazuli. I find they stick in the mind's eye better than trees and flowers. Chalcedony is popular, probably because the word sounds good.

My flower knowledge is abysmal and it's compounded by every flower seeming to have its own myth, superstition, or hidden relevance. Let's say the protag in a fantasy book walks through a meadow of asphodel. This can only be appreciated when you know it's morbid gray appearance, and association with the Greek underworld. This is a more obvious case, but there are many flowers with more hidden histories that the more patrician writers like to deploy.