Category Archives: Flora
American Mandrake
American Mandrake The Poison Garden, Blarney Castle, Ireland American Mandrake Podophyllum peltatum [ Plantae: Angiosperms: Eudicots: Core eudicots: Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae: Amaranthus: Podophyllum peltatum ] Common Names: Mayapple, Devil’s Apple, Hog-apple, Indian Apple, American Mandrake, American May Apple, Racoonberry, … Continue reading
Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding The Poison Garden, Blarney Castle, Ireland Love Lies Bleeding Amaranthus caudatus [ Plantae: Angiosperms: Eudicots: Core eudicots: Caryophyllales: Amaranthaceae: Amaranthus: A. caudatus ] Common Names: Amaranth, Amaranthus, Love Lies Bleeding, love-lies-bleeding, love-lies-a’bleeding, pendant amaranth, tassel … Continue reading
The Yew Tree
Yew Tree The Poison Garden, Blarney Castle, Ireland European Yew Taxus baccata [ Plantae: Pinophyta: Pinopsida: Pinales: Taxaceae: Taxus: T. baccata ] Common Names: Yew, Localities: The European Yew is a conifer that is native to Western, Central, … Continue reading
Irish Peat Fuel
Irish Peat Fuel Ireland and the United Kingdom are pretty unique in that they utilize “Peat” as a kind of fuel, while most of the world uses coal, wood, petroleum, or gas for their heating. Peat use can … Continue reading
Spittlebug Secretions
Faerie Poop or Spittlebug mess The legend has it that areas in the bushes and on plants where faeries take a leak, or take a poop, is left behind white foamy material. Of course these “Poop faeries” or … Continue reading
Glenariff Forest Park
Glenariff Forest Park Antrim, Northern Ireland One of Northern Ireland’s enchanted woodlands … Glenariff Forest Park is full of myth and legends, faeries, and woodland creatures. It is home to a unique Waterfall Walkway that was introduced to … Continue reading
Alder
Alder Alnus glutinosa Common Names: Alder, Common Alder Localities: Description: A Deciduous Tree with alternate, simple, and serrated leaves; flowering into catkins with elongate male catkins on same plant as shorter woody female catkins that often appear before … Continue reading
Common Ivy
Ivy Ivy Hedera helix Common names: Common Ivy, Ivy. Location: Common to most of Europe, Scandinavia, Spain, Ukraine, Northern Turkey, and Western Asia. Invasive and destructive in parts of the United States and Australia. Description: A vine-like evergreen … Continue reading
Hawthorne
White Thorn Common Hawthorne Crataegus monogyna; formerly Crataegus oxyacantha Common names: May Tree, Haegthorn, “Faerie Tree”, Whitethorn, common hawthorne, thorne, may, mayblossom, maythorn, quickthorn, whitethorn, motherdie, and haw. Localities: Native to Europe, Greece, Northwest Africa, Western Asia. … Continue reading
Saveok Water Ritual Offering Pits
Offering Pits at Saveok Water Archaeology Site: Saveok Mill, Greenbottom, Cornwall, England Within the last 10 years, one of the world’s best archaeological examples of Ritual Witchcraft has been exposed in Cornwall, England. This site, Saveok Water Archaeology, … Continue reading