Crystal Juniper

Crystal Juniper is a crystalline plant known to resemble the juniper plant. While considered perennial, scholars are unsure if it is truly a plant or a growth of crystal resembling a plant.

Description
The crystals resemble a low growth juniper bush. The entire plant's structure is clear with a slight black tint. There are veins like structures running throughout the stem and limbs of the plant. The needles are able to be harvested but any attempted harvesting of a limb or the entire plant causes the entire structure to crack and break.

It is believed that the plant is a result of another realm forcing itself into certain regions of the mortal plane and affecting the plant life there.

Due to the difficulties of harvesting the needles of the plant, villages and even cities have been built wherever one of these plants are found.

Uses
The needles of the plant can be crushed into a fine powder and inhaled treat illnesses caused by aberrations. The crushed powder can also be used to ward off aberrations from certain places. Clerics and adventurers are known to carry the dust just in case they were to, unfortunately, meet with such a creature.

An illegal use of the dust is to ingest it via smoking it. It is illegal because prolonged use of the needles can cause the person to start exhibiting aberration like qualities. Some have been said to turn into something akin to a mind flayer.