Vannah Bells, which get their name from their downward hanging bell-shaped golden flowers, grow high in Cantun's equatorial steppe. They are large shrubs with bitter-tasting leaves, dense, thorny branches, and red and white-spotted pepper-like fruits. They are known for their exponential growth after injury, and new leaves produced after damage via viral infection contain high quantities of natural antiviral compounds.

All attempts to cultivate them have failed, so regular trips into the mountains are often undertaken to assess the plants. They are carefully inoculated with a viral strain which is harmless to the plant, and the plants are them physically injured to encourage new exponential growth.

The plants produce many useful resources: The aformentioned antiviral compounds are collected from leaves grown by infected plants, which are then dried, ground into a powder, and the compounds are extracted. The powder can also be mixed with water and applied directly to wounds.

The fruits of the plant are pepper-like, with red skin dotted with white spots. These are very bitter and have a foul smell, which can be used to keep pests away from crops and sensitive locations. When steamed, the bitter compounds are destroyed, leaving the fruits sweeter and very juicy. Because they are so rare, and because harvesting too many would render the plant extinct very easily, harvesting the fruits is carefully policed.

The seed pods within the fruit explode with a loud pop when heated, but are very strong, requiring a lot of pressure to break open. This makes them ideal for revealing the presence of fires- large pouches of them were historically hung in buildings, and would explode noisily if a fire was present, acting as a primitive fire alarm. This use has largely disappeared, but they are still used for entertainment as natural firecrackers. Some times they are thrown into fires to scare others as a prank.