Crystherium

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The crystherium utilia is the name given to the real flower strelitzia or the "bird of paradise flower" on the science fiction television show Farscape. In the Uncharted Territories, the flower is rare and considered a delicacy among the Scarran Empire. Consumption of the flower also has the effect of increasing the Scarran's brain capacity, allowing their ruling class to advance to the same intellectual level as other sentient species such as humans and Sebaceans.

Crystherium can only be grown in certain conditions, forcing the Scarrans to cultivate them in a limited number of locations. Because of this handicap, the Scarrans can only expand their power from certain locations, one of which is the hidden base Katratzi where the flowers are heavily protected. With the destruction of the Katratzi flower supply by the crew of Moya, the capability of the Scarrans to rule that region is set back by hundreds of cycles.

After the destruction of Katratzi, the Scarrans head for wormhole that leads to Earth, hoping to conquer the planet after John Crichton accidentally informed them of its sizeable supply. However, Crichton, along with the help of Aeryn and Pilot, manages to collapse the wormhold before the Scarrans can reach it, cutting off another potential crystherium supply.