Silvervein

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The Silvervein is a smooth, pale tree streaked with shimmering metallic veins that resemble liquid mercury. Its bark strips are flammable when dry, and its leaves are teardrop-shaped and pale green with blue undersides that shimmer when the wind blows. Silvervien blossoms are small, bell-like, and blueish-white. They make a faint ringing sound when the wind passes through groves. Their growth is slender and elegant, found alongside streams and damp clearings. Its flammable bark strips are best dried and harvested in arid Earlhibernal. These trees feature thick, corky, self-sacrificing bark that chars but protects the living cambium inside, and their nuts are serotinous: the seeds glued shut by resin and requiring the intense heat of a wildfire to melt the resin and release the seeds into the nutrient-rich ash.