Editing Do Chaka (section)

==The forests of Do Chaka==

The forests across Do Chaka are not wet enough to be rainforest. Tekumel's average temperature is a lot hotter than Earth's and the latitude of the Do Chaka, while quite far north, gives a tropical to subtropical climate. Most of the trees are broadleafs, but at higher altitudes there are many tracts of pine-like Tiu tree. Much of the vegetation here is descended from that found on the Pe Choi homeworld, especialy the shrubs and herb layer, and a few trees that give edible (to Pe Choi) bark. The Pe Choi do not farm in the same way as humans, but plant, irrigate and manage their forest floors to create mixed semi-wild areas of useful and edible plants and fungi. During the dry season (Trantor-Dohala) some trees and shrubs lose their leaves or go yellow and brown. ''(See Sourcebook Vol 1, p49).''