A quick Tree Index
This quick index highlights a few key properties that may help as guide to the individual tree-letters themselves [click on the relevant link]. This list shows completed - or near-completed - tree-letters (the rest are in preparation)
| Tree |
botanical lore | mythology |
| Beithe/birch | lightness, whiteness, pioneer, betulin, wealth of fungi, durable bark, birch tar, bladder more... | Cernunnos, wildman of woods, giant, silver wells, handfesting, maypole, bark hats more... |
| Luis/rowan | rose, light, berries, humus, parasrbic acid, vitamin C, coughs, more... | doorways, protection, earth and heaven, runes life rod, Dubhros, more... |
| Nuin/ash | beneficial, healer, humus producer, disinfectant, more... | Brigit, Epona, Uffington, Odin, spears, cloud-maker, Imbolc, more... |
| Fearn/alder | rivers, wet ground, oxygen, nitrogen, drains, blood, crannogs, piles, sticky, cones, more... | Bran, raven, protection for britain, Niamh, Rough Else, blood, wooden goddess, more... |
| Seile/willow | leaning, waterproof, storms, regenerate, pollarding, salicin, aspirin, more... | moon owns it, Helice, sacred to poets, witches, wryneck, more... |
| Huath/hawthorn | hedgerows, carving, windbreak, insects, haws, heart more... | Beltane, Olwen, protective, springs, Maia, Sleeping Beauty, Culhwych, Thomas the Rhymer more... |
| Duir/oak | long life, strength, insects, lightning, thunder, electrical currents, more... | doorman, druid, summer solstice, Janus, oracle, Dodona, more... |
| Tinne/holly | shade, evergreen with leaves, strong high quality wood, fevers and colds, more... | christian symbolism, Tannus, Gawain and Green Knight, waxing and waning, bull with club foot, more... |
| Muin/vine/bramble | rose-like, arching canes, lateral shoots, larvae, basketry, binding, protection, leap-frog, more... | Osiris, exhiliration, taboo, Michaelmas, more... |
| Coll/hazel | human settlements, youth, divination, skin irritations, more... | magic nut, Connla's Well, nine, Bush Barrow lozenge, caduceus, salmon of wisdom, Taliesin more... |
| Gort/ivy | blocking light, decoctions, sinusitis, spleen , more... | wild, toxic, pubs, resurrection, ivy girl, more... |
| Peith/guelder rose | water-elder, sterile flowers, translucent, cramp bark, swollen glands, more... | Samhain, ukranian beauty, ngetal or reed, more... |
| Ruis/elder | Rebalancer, nettles, nitrogen, trets infection, more... | Frau Holle, guardian, death, more... |
| Ailm/pine | red bark, survivor, light, symbiosis, undulating, pitch, tar, resin, incense, more... | |
| Iodh/yew | no resin, poisonous, immortal, layering, resurrection, yew bows, more... | 5,000 years, tumulus, bluestones, Odin, yew island, Iona, Glastonbury, Danu, more... |