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[✓] [World Lore] - Lumber Juice Cactus, and Kaktowood


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Material Name and Description 

 

A Lumber Juice Cactus is a squat, or ‘barrel’ cactus which grows in sandy, coastal locations. The cacti is standardly orbular in shape, and can grow up to 2 and a half feet tall, with small short needles extending from 15-19 ribs along its pine green body. The cactus can live for roughly 12 years, and blooms bright magenta flowers in the early spring every year. If properly fertilized, the cactus shall produce a small bundle of 2-3 red ‘fruits’. These fruits are small, red and thorny and roughly the size of a plumb, akin to a rounder  prickly pear. They bear a vaguely sweet taste, and contain roughly 20 almond shaped seeds. These seeds can be planted in suitably sandy soil in a hot, coastal environment, and will sprout into new lumber juice cactus plants.

 

The cactus bears a hard outside which standardly measures one inch thick, however, the interior of the cactus is comprised entirely of a thick fluorescent green substance. This substance is a thick, akin to cake icing, and is a bright green in color. The ‘juice’ of the cactus is overpoweringly bitter tasting, yet bears an aloe vera like scent. An average adult plant contains roughly 2 gallons of this juice.

 

However, should the juice of the cactus be left out to dry for over a day, the juice shall eventually harden, at first becoming a vaguely damp, spongy material, before eventually hardening to a porous, yellow-green wood like substance, akin to black palm wood. The hardened juice, or ‘Kaktowood’ is effectively a porous hard wood, able to be utilized for nearly any purpose a standard piece of wood would be able to be used. However, given its initial liquid state, the juice of the cactus may be placed into molds or containers, and harden, maintaining the shape it had in its liquid form. For kaktowood to harden, the juice must be left either in the sun, or in a warm, dry place, in which case it will harden over the course of two days, becoming spongy after the first 24 hours, and fully hardening after the next 24. Should the wood not be fully dried, it is liable to become liquidy once more should it be wetted or rain or being submerged in the water, or simply brought to a notably humid environment. However, fully dried kaktowood is immune to such issues. 

 

Red Lines

-Kaktowood is as strong as black palm wood, and acts as a hardwood with a inconsistent grain.

 

-Kaktowood is created through drying out juice of a Lumber Juice Cactus over the course of 2 narrative days.

 

-The juice of a Lumber Juice Cactus requires a cool dry environment, and will not solidify around a living creature. The juice of the cactus is disgusting to descendants to consume, though not poisonous, simply revolting.


 

Applications 

 

Kaktowood is notably porous, and for all intents and purposes acts as a green wood, and while resilient enough to be used for construction, hafts, or any other purpose wood might be used for, and is equally liable to rot, and receptive to anti-rot treatments as regular wood is, however, due to its porous nature, it is not able to flex well, and is thus not suitable for use in bows or other tension based apparati.


 

Harvesting Method

Lumber Juice may be either siphoned from inside the cactus via a tab or simply boring a hole through the cactus and draining it, or breaking or cutting off the top of the cactus, and simply scooping the thick juice out. If one wishes to save some for later, one must simply store the juice in a sealed container, of which it shall be kept in juice form indefinitely.

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