Spinebarrels were a type of flower that grew on Jakku, a desert planet in the Western Reaches. Rey, a scavenger on Jakku, once found a small spinebarrel growing in the sand, which helped her realize that anything could survive on Jakku. She made a hobby of collecting spinebarrels and nightblossoms to display in her home in order to remind herself that there was beauty even on Jakku as long as you looked hard enough.