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Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 29 | "girl has been challenged to identify precisely what type of fruit the ka-la-na is. she has been told by some Free that it is a berry, a grape-type of fruit, and a bean; yet she can not find a precise reference in the books."
Answer
Hello,
There is no specific description of the ka-la-na fruit itself given within the series. The trees, on which this fruit grows are described several times. Using a combination of some of these descriptions, ka-la-na trees grow in thickets, are yellow, tall and have long branches.
As far as what can be deducted of the fruit, we know that ka-la-na wine is red. Therefore it would stand to reason that the juice of the fruit is also
reddish in color. But even in the times where the fruit is described as being eaten, no mention is made whether this is bite sized, as in grapes, or
as 'taking a bite out of', as in an apple or peach.
To sum this up, then, the size of shape of the ka-la-na fruit is something to be guessed.
Below are a few of the quotes from which I gathered this information.
Fogaban
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's
family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red
winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree.
Tarnsman of Gor Book 1 Page 68
In the distance I could see some patches of yellow, the Ka-la-na groves that dot the fields of Gor.
Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Page 19
Black, scudding clouds again obscured the three moons of Gor, and the wind began to rise. I could see the shadows of tall Ka-la-na trees bending
against the darkness of the night, their leaves lifting and rustling on the long branches.
Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Page 35
Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree,
about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the
Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the
prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name; there
was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple.
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 217
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