Engraved botanical plate: apple tree

Apple tree

Malus domestica

In the Celtic tree horoscope, the apple tree is the tree of those born December 23 to January 1 and June 25 to July 4. The horoscope lends it love, charisma, harmony, diplomacy, sensitivity.

In the horoscope

  • December 23 to January 1
  • June 25 to July 4

Love, charisma, harmony, diplomacy, sensitivity.

The real tree

  • Malus domestica
  • Family Rosaceae

A fruit tree grown the world over for its apples.

And in the ogham?

Yes: Ceirt, glossed "apple" by medieval scholars (the word first meant a bush). The ogham is the alphabet of early Ireland from which Robert Graves drew his tree calendar; only ten of the horoscope's 21 trees appear in it (pine and fir share one letter).

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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