ME plants - mostly flowers

[Evisse the Blue]

The earth has such a vast variety of flora that it is possible that the Good Professor may have had a particular flowr, or type of flower, in mind when he described some of the Elven blooms

You're right, I browsed through the ending notes in UT and found that aeglos and seregin (thanks,Sharkû for those) are like 'furze' respectively stonecrop. But they say furze has yellow flowers while aeglos has white ones. By the way, have you noticed that the majority of Tolkien's flowers are white? The rest are standard colours (i.e. red, yellow), not sophisticated but simple and beautiful. No genetic tampering with them, I suppose [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Birdland, that's a wonderful discovery - I had no idea Earendil's ship was named after a real flower I assumed it was just a figure of speech, a Beowulf style metaphor.
You probably all wonder though: why the topic? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Am I right, Gwaihir? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]