The arrack vine, a species of vine native to Lothal, faced a decline, potentially to the point of extinction, because of the Galactic Empire's mining operations on the planet. Holshef, a poet, recounted to Merei Spanjaf that before the Empire's presence, he could discern the specific week of spring by observing the green hues of the grasslands and detecting the aromas of both arrack vine and jogan fruit.