Fruits and Vegetables (Web Novel)

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WARNING! This Article is based on the Web Novel series! The Web Novel series is the original manuscript for the adaptation of the Light Novel series and is untranslated or fan translated. Information in this article is likely to contain major spoilers for the series and/or outdated/incorrect information!

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The Ascendance of a Bookworm world has its own fruits and vegetables, some resembling the ones known from Earth in some attributes.

List of Fruits

Name	Season	Location	First Mention	Used For	Information
Apfelsige	Summer	Central Ehrenfest	Web Novel Chapter 44	Food Rinsham	Apfelsige (フェリジーネ, Ferijiine) is a summer fruit that can be used for sweets. It is similar to a citrus fruit. Due to its similarity to citrus fruits, Myne suggested using its peel for rinsham.
Edile		Central Ehrenfest		Papermaking	Ediles are a type of fruit found in Ehrenfest that produce a sticky juice. Ediles are used in the papermaking process at the Rozemyne Workshop.
Fallold	Summer	Central Ehrenfest	Web Novel Chapter 39	Food	Fallold (コルデ, Korude) is a normally sweet fruit that looks like a raspberry, but tastes different. It is sour when harvested too early in the season. It can be made into a drink by thinning it's juice with water and optionally adding honey to make it sweeter.
Meryl	Summer Autumn	Central Ehrenfest		Cooking Rinsham	Meryls are an avocado-like fruit. Myne uses the vegetable oil to make rinsham, but it is commonly used to cook.
Parue	Winter	Central Ehrenfest		Food	Parue is the fruit of a feytree that grows from the tree only in winter mornings. The tree is almost transparent looking like it is made out of ice. They are gathered by melting the branch the fruit is attached to. Since Parue trees magically smother any fire in their direct vicinity, this has to be done with body-heat. Parue fruits are drained of their sweet juice, which is used as a drink and pressed for their oil to be used for cooking. The dry remnants are then used as animal feed. Myne discovers that this parue residue can be used as a base for a variety of recipies, like Parue Cakes, a rough equivalent to Earth's pancakes.
Pome	Summer	Central Ehrenfest	Web Novel Chapter 17	Parue-Burger	Pome (ポメ, Pome) is a tomato-like fruit that looks like a yellow bell pepper, grows in the summer. Myne uses pome for her Parue-Burger recipe.
Ranshel	Summer	Central Ehrenfest		Food	Ranshel are fruits that are tasty and easy to eat. They have a core which is normally not eaten.
Rio	Summer	Central Ehrenfest		Rinsham	Rio is a fruit from Central Ehrenfest that can be used as an ingredient for Rinsham.
Rutreb	Summer	Central Ehrenfest	Web Novel Chapter 74		Rutbreb (ルトレーベ, Rutoreebe) are a summer fruit loved by shumils. It has red juice and resembles strawberries.
Taue	Outside of Winter	Central Ehrenfest		Utility Papermaking Treating the Devouring	Taue are tasteless red fruit looking like tomatoes on the outside, that can be found from spring to autumn. They reach their biggest size at the height of summer, at which time they are collected for the Star Festival, where they are used in a similar fashion to water balls. By chance Myne finds out that Taue are actually the fruits of Trombe. If they are exposed to sufficient amounts of mana, it's shape changes to something akin to a pineapple before exploding and scattering it's seeds in a small raduis. If the seeds land on earth they immediately start to sprout small Trombes. Myne secretly uses this to grow small Trombes under controlled conditions for papermaking and also to drain mana from Dirk to treat his Devouring.
Trauperle	Summer	Illgner	Part 3 Volume 4 Staying in Illgner	Utility Papermaking	Trauperle (トラオペルレ, Toraoperure) is a fruit that grows in Illgner. Too bitter to serve as food, it's sticky juices are used as glue by the locals. It is also used as a component in specialized kinds of plant paper produced by the Rozemyne Workshop. Paper made with Trauperle is unusually silky smooth and drys in less than two bells time. It keeps it's shape very well when bent, making it ideally suited for making playing cards.

List of Vegetables

Name	Season	Location	First Mention	Used For	Information
Degrova		Illgner		Utility Papermaking	Degrova (デグルヴァ Deguruva) is a type of leaf that, when put in water, makes the water sticky. They are found in Illgner, and are used in the papermaking process.
Fisha	Summer	Central Ehrenfest Illgner	Web Novel Chapter 20	Food	Fisha (フーシャ, Fuusha) is a green eggplant that appears in summer..
Pome	Summer	Central Ehrenfest		Food	Pome are a vegetable that looks like yellow bell peppers, but tastes like tomatoes.
Potatoffel		Central Ehrenfest	Web Novel Chapter 46	Food	Potatoffels (カルフェ芋, Karufe Imo) are a vegetable resembling Earth's potatoes. They are a very common ingredient for food. Myne used them to make Steamed Potatoes.
Rezzuch	Summer	Illgner		Food	Rezzuch (レズーク Rezuuku) is a vegetable found in Illgner. It looks like plums and tastes similar to zucchini.
Vel	Summer	Central Ehrenfest	Web Novel Chapter 20	Food	Vel (ヴェル, Veru) is a red lettuce that appears in summer.

Etymology

Name	Japanese	Romaji	Assumed Etymology	Assumed Translation
Rutreb	ルトレーベ	Rutoreebe	Erdbeere (DE)	Strawberry
Trauperle	トラオペルレ	Toraoperure	Traube (DE) Perle (DE)	Grape Pearl

Trivia

• The fruit that was translated to fallold light novel is called "Colde" in the japanese version.
• The vegetable that was translated to potatoffel in the web novel and light novel is called "Karffel" in the anime.

Additional References

• Cambridge Online Dictionary
• Japanese Wiki