By Sean Fagan
On the foothills of the McGillicuddy Reeks, Southwest Ireland - the beautiful, creamy-white blossom of ROWAN, Sorbus aucuparia (Photo: Sean Fagan).
TREE OF THE DRUIDS
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The rowan was held in high esteem in the past as indicated by one of its Irish names, Fid na nDruad - Tree of the Druids.
Of all the native trees in Ireland, it's the diminutive rowan that has attained some of the greatest corpus of lore associated with any native tree.
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