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The following websites are used as sources: Pern FandomKadanzer Weyr

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The following lists are not the entirety of edible or otherwise useful Pernese flora and fauna. However, these are mentioned canonically or were added to fill out the world. Additionally, items marked with an asterisk (*) are native to Pern.

Meats

Draybeast - llama, ox

Fish * - includes fingertail, packtail, rainbow, redfin, whitefish, and yellowstripe

Fish - includes minnow

Fowl - chicken, duck

Game bird - geese, pheasant, quail, turkey

Herdbeast - bovine, goat, porcine, sheep

Runnerbeast

Shellfish * - includes spiderclaw

Shellfish

Songbird - dove, pigeon

Tunnel snake

Wherry

Whersport

 

Fruits

Apple

Banana

Blackberry

Blueberry

Cherry

Citron * - a citrus fruit similar to a cross between an orange and a lemon

Coconut

Goru pear * - a tart and tangy pear-like fruit

Grape

Lemon

Marshberry * - a blackberry-like fruit

Moonflower fruit * - a sweet red-orange fruit

Orange

Peach

Pear

Plum

Raspberry

Redfruit * - a fruit similar to a cross between an apple and a plum

Sticklebush berry * - a berry often made into jam

Strawberry

Watermelon

 

Vegetables

Beet

Cabbage

Carrot

Corn

Cucumber

Garlic

Leek

Lettuce

Mockweed * - a bitter salad green

Nettleweed * - young plants are used as salad greens

Onion

Spinach

Tomato​​

Yellowvein * - an edible green with yellow stripes

Grains

Barley

Couscous

Millet

Oat

Rice

Rye

Sorghum

Wheat

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Herbs

Arnica

Basil

Coriander

Cumin

Hazel

Numbweed * - a bush whose leaves can be used to make a painkilling gel

Rosemary

Tarragon

Thyme

Willow

 

Legumes

Green bean

Pea

Pinto bean

String bean

 

Other Flora

Ash tree

Black pepper

Cotton

Fellis tree * - a tree whose bark can be made into a liquid soporific drug

Flax

Ging tree * - a tree whose sap can be used as glue

Klah tree * - a tree whose bark can be powered and brewed to create a coffee-like drink

Mushroom

Needlethorn * - a bush whose sharp thorns can be used as needles

Potato

Salt

Sugarcane

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Products

Beer - brewed using barley, hops, malt, rice, fruit, or other flavoring agents; all common Terran varieties exist on Pern

Brandy - produced by distilling grape wine

Bread

Butter

Cereal - includes porridge and oatmeal

Cheese - includes bovine, llama, goat, runnerbeast, and sheep

Cider - pressed from apples and other fruits

Cream

Milk - includes bovine, llama, goat, runnerbeast, and sheep

Molasses

Sugar

Wine - includes fortified, table, and sparkling wines

Yogurt

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