Engraved botanical plate: maple

Maple

Acer pseudoplatanus

In the Celtic tree horoscope, the maple is the tree of those born April 11 to 20 and October 14 to 23. The horoscope lends it imagination, ambition, sensitivity, fighting spirit.

In the horoscope

  • April 11 to 20
  • October 14 to 23

Imagination, ambition, sensitivity, fighting spirit.

The real tree

  • Acer pseudoplatanus
  • Family Sapindaceae (formerly Aceraceae)

A large tree common in Europe, with spinning winged seeds.

And in the ogham?

No. The maple 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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