The plants of middle earth

[William Cloud Hicklin]

I actually did mention lebethron its in the secion on Yavannamire. As I stated my money on some sort of persimmon which would have black wood (i.e. ebony) and which does have finger like leaves.

Persimmon is in fact a true ebony (diospyros). It would be a stretch, though, to find any member of the genus which would grow straight enough for a good staff! Just maybe Macassar ebony (which however is striped). Perhaps one of the darker rosewoods, like African blackwood, or the really old (and unobtainable) nearly-black examples of jacaranda: but then the leaves would be wrong.


Note: Telperion, and thus the White Tree of Gondor, was in the form of a cherry-tree.