Engraved botanical plate: rowan

Rowan

Sorbus aucuparia

In the Celtic tree horoscope, the rowan is the tree of those born April 1 to 10 and October 4 to 13. The horoscope lends it delicacy, refinement, joviality, creativity, passion.

In the horoscope

  • April 1 to 10
  • October 4 to 13

Delicacy, refinement, joviality, creativity, passion.

The real tree

  • Sorbus aucuparia
  • Family Rosaceae

A small tree of woodland edges, up to 15 metres, with clusters of red berries.

And in the ogham?

Yes: Luis, glossed "rowan" by the scholarly tradition. 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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