Alecost
Written by Pookas Kreations
This plant was originally found on an uninhabited island of the southern tip of Atlantia Continent. Angela Longbottom discovered the plant while exploring these lush islands.
After she brought it back to the mainland, it became very popular with brewers and housewives. It soon was grown in many kitchen gardens. Some people's favorite use is the making of alcohol. Fresh leaves are good in soups, salads, cakes, bread, and various beverages. It can be used in cold, warm, or hot drinks, and imparts a lemon mint flavor.
Alecost has a variety of uses from culinary, cosmetic, aromatic, and medicinal. Good as a cough, gas, and digestive aid, diuretic and wound-healing, delicious as a tea, and useful for its essential oils. It even has deworming, and insecticide properties.
Basic Information
Flowers bloom from September to October and can self-pollinate. This is a very useful, hardy, perennial herb, it needs to be in at least partial shade to grow flowers, but if all you want is leaves it will survive in full shade. The leaves are oval with tiny serrations and up to 12 in long, with loose clusters of tiny button-like flowers, that smell like mint, lemon, and balsam. The stem is fuzzy, ridged, pale green, and square. The flowers have yellow, with white outer petals.
Alecost grows in clumps and spreads by rhizomes. Of course, the flowers produce seeds just like any other. They thrive in disturbed soil, every bit of root that is separated from the whole will grow into a new plant.
Alecost likes growing in temperate woodlands or grasslands. It will survive in most terrain types.
Alecost prefers full sun, acid-neutral basic-alkaline soil, and dry soil. It likes light sandy, medium loamy, and heavy clay well-drained soil.
Additional Information
They can live in almost every temperate area.
Scientific Name
Tanacetum balsamita
Entry for Worldbuilding Summer Camp 2023
Answering: "
a useful plant found in a wild area of your world"
I like the idea of making alcohol out of something minty.