by Hawthorn
Beech - Phagos -
Fagus
by Winter Cymraes
Birch - Beith -
Betula
I am a Stag of Seven Tines
by Susa Morgan Black
Species: Prunus spinosa
Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Ogham: Straif (ST), a Chieftain Tree
Scots Gaelic: Draighionn
Irish Gaelic: Draighean
Welsh: Draenen ddu
Astrological Rulers: Saturn and Mars
The Blackthorn tree is esoterically known as both the Mother of the Woods and the Dark Crone of the Woods.
Description
by Mara Freeman
Elder - Ruis -
Sambucus
by Fiona Ware
Furze - Onn
Ulex Europaeus, Ulex Galli, Ulex Minor
I am the blaze on every hill
by Mara Freeman
The Hawthorn - Huathe -
Crataegus
A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn
Until the tree was root and branches of my thought,
Until white petals blossomed in my crown.
From The Traveller by Kathleen Raine
by Mara Freeman
Hazel - Coll -
Corylus
I went out to the hazelwood,
Because a fire was in my head.
W. B. Yeats
by Mara Freeman
Holly - Tinne -
Ilex
Here comes the holly that is so noble!
-Old Carol
by Gwylim O.Davies
English Ivy
(Hedera Helix LINN.)
The plant is found over the greater part of Europe and Northern and Central Asia, and is said to have been particularly abundant at Nyssa, the fabled home of Bacchus in his youth. There are many varieties, but only two accepted species, i.e. Hedera Helix and the Australian species, which is confined to the southern Continent.
—From a Modern Herbal
by Mara Freeman
Oak - Duir -
Quercus
Choose the Oak of the Sun
-old Scottish rhyme
