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Old 03-22-2021, 09:17 AM   #25
Tyneras
 
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Default Re: [Magic] How much food can the Blossom spell produce?

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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne View Post
There's an interpretive question about Blossom here—it doesn't say entering the "fall phase" prevents Blossom from working the next day. For all the spell text says AFAICT you could cast it in the dead of winter and it would still work.

There's also a question of what exactly "fruit" is for the purposes of this spell. Does it only cover "culinary fruits", or does it cover nuts? Could it even cover mushrooms—at least if you use a fungus-related variant (something hinted at in Plant Spells)? After all a diet of mushrooms is very traditional for underground-dwellers.
A good point, the text frequently lists fruits and nuts separately, but as you point out there's a difference in the culinary and botany definitions. Exploding Vegetable includes (culinary) fruits and vegetables but not nuts in it's example. But nuts are included in the category of crop.

Personally, I'm inclined to think Blossom works on anything that has end of life/cycle seed form. So I'd let it work on everything from fruit trees to grass to nuts but not fungus because those seem be a category all their own, given the Fungus Spells box (p17)
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