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Good For Tea Trees

Alternately a plant and a descriptive phrase throughout Battal, good-for-tea trees have roots used in the traditional minotaur beverage simply dubbed Root Tea (or rather, in more palatable variations of root tea, as roots from poison oak and the Spew Projection Tree of Bavatzin Cove Beach have both been used as viable root tea ingredients). Besides its tea-ready roots, the bark can be ground as a spicy, vaguely cinnamon-y flavoring for tea, and the leaves, if pressed, give up a tasty sap that can serve as sugar. There's not a single part of the good-for-tea tree that can't be put to the service of making some good tea.

A good-for-tea tree is, ironically, fed and nourished by the most disgusting things imaginable: the sun-bloated corpses of farts, the gruesome effluvia of Red Turbo Swamp Slime Raccoons, and the occasional bear vomit puddle or comb of fly honey. Thus, the phrase "It's good for tea trees" describes something so horrible that only a good-for-tea tree could find it palatable.