The plants of middle earth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Alfirin · 07-11-2007, 06:48 PM

Yeah the names can be a nightmare. I had a nightmre with "amaranth" (I was looking for seed for the tree i.e. for purpleheart and kept being redirect to seed for the grain/vegetable. Or more pertinent to the discussion at hand the Cassia (the spice usuall used for cinnamon) versus Cassia (the genus with the golden shower tree now more often called Senna).

By the way thanks for the cherry identity for thye White tree of gondor/ Nimloth. I always though there was a probelem with the image I'd see so often of an Oakish tree (most particularly in the old Rankin Bass-cartoon version) namely Isulad stole a "fruit" from Nimloth and oaks of corse have nuts not fruits (well botanically a nut is a fruit/seed but we sorta know that if Tolkein said fruit he meant somthing flesh which a cherry certainly fits.

07-11-2007, 06:48 PM	#11
Alfirin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 435	Yeah the names can be a nightmare. I had a nightmre with "amaranth" (I was looking for seed for the tree i.e. for purpleheart and kept being redirect to seed for the grain/vegetable. Or more pertinent to the discussion at hand the Cassia (the spice usuall used for cinnamon) versus Cassia (the genus with the golden shower tree now more often called Senna). By the way thanks for the cherry identity for thye White tree of gondor/ Nimloth. I always though there was a probelem with the image I'd see so often of an Oakish tree (most particularly in the old Rankin Bass-cartoon version) namely Isulad stole a "fruit" from Nimloth and oaks of corse have nuts not fruits (well botanically a nut is a fruit/seed but we sorta know that if Tolkein said fruit he meant somthing flesh which a cherry certainly fits.