Death's Needles Pine

A large evergreen tree, if it can be called green, that grows from 5-10 feet in height. Death's Needles which grows near locations thick with death, such as graveyards, battlefields, and mass graves. Its needles are a dark green, almost black, and grow in bunches of five, looking like small skeletal hands. The sap of a Death's Needles Pine is known to mask the smell of the death and ward of negative energies and the miasma. Popular with doctors and undertakes a dab under the nose is all that is needed for a day of grim work. Amber made from the sap is often burned as incense during funerals. Tea made from the needles is said to induce dreams of those who dies nearby.