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Knobweed stalks with milky sap

object · NOB-weed

Knobweed

knobweed sap

A reed-like plant whose milky sap is a strong antiseptic. Kaladin and Rock harvest it from the chasms and sell it so can eat and heal.
The weed Kaladin turned into and bandages.
Role
Medicine and black-market income for
First introduced
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
Most recently in view
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings

Look

Tall knobby stalks, unremarkable until you split them and the white sap runs. Surgeons know the smell.

Where

Chasm floors of the Shattered Plains

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