Engraved botanical plate: hornbeam

Hornbeam

Carpinus betulus

In the Celtic tree horoscope, the hornbeam is the tree of those born June 4 to 13 and December 2 to 11. The horoscope lends it seduction, aesthetic sense, culture, uprightness, rigour.

In the horoscope

  • June 4 to 13
  • December 2 to 11

Seduction, aesthetic sense, culture, uprightness, rigour.

The real tree

  • Carpinus betulus
  • Family Betulaceae

A medium-sized tree, the hornbeam of clipped hedges.

And in the ogham?

No. The hornbeam is not among the letters of the ogham, the alphabet of early Ireland from which Robert Graves drew his tree calendar: like ten other trees of the horoscope, it was added later.

Dates: majority version of four published tables. Traits: those the tree horoscope lends (Gerbeaud). Botany: Wikipedia and Wikidata. Ogham: Wikipedia (after McManus and the Auraicept na n-Éces).

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