Dr Whitehead's List

The list of Bible Plants by Dr Tatham Whitehead, University of North Wales 1962

Creation

  • 1. WHEATS
    • a. Wild Small Spelt
    • b. Wild Emmer
    • c. Small Spelt
    • d. Emmer
    • e. Club
  • 2. OATS and BARLEY
    • a. Bristle-Pointed Oat
    • b. Short Oat
    • c. Sterile Oat
    • d. Wild Wall Barley
  • 3. GRASSES
    • a. Aegelops umbellulata
    • b. Aegilops ovuta - Goat Grass
    • c. Purple Bristle Grass
    • d. Green Bristle Grass
    • e. 'Rye' Brome
    • f. Barrel Brome
    • g. Upright Brome
    • h. Compact Brome
    • i. Ratstail Fescue
    • j. Rough Dogstail
    • k. Annual Beard-Grass
  • 4. Tree of Knowledge -Apricot
  • 5. Fig Tree
  • 6. Palestinian Buckthorn
  • 7. Thistle

Deluge

  • 8. Gopher Wood of the Ark
  • 9. Olive
  • 10. Grape-Vine

Age of Patriarchs

  • 11. Kermes or Abraham's Oak
  • 12. Elm-Leaved Bramble
  • 13. Red Lentils
  • 14. Mandrake
  • 15. Plane Tree
  • 16. Hazel Tree
  • 17. Poplar Tree - Joseph in Egypt
  • 18. Stacte (Styrax)
  • 19. Onycha (Cistus)
  • 20. Pistachio Nuts
  • 21. Almond
  • 22. Six-Rowed Barley
  • 23. One-Grained Spelt
  • 24. Broom - Corn Millet
  • 25. Foxtail Millet
  • 26. Common Rush
  • 27. Soft Rush
  • 28. Water Gladioli.
  • 29. Single-eared Wheat
  • 30. Multi-eared Wheat

Moses and Exodus

  • 31. Sweet Calamus
  • 32. 'Burning Bush'
  • 33. Hyssop
  • 34. Date Palm

Culinary Herbs

  • 35. Garlic
  • 36. Egyptian Onion
  • 37. Leek
  • 38. Melon
  • 39. Cucumber
  • 40. Tamarisk or Manna Tree
  • 41. Flowering Ash or 'Manna'
  • 42. Coriander

Bitter Herbs

  • 43. Horehound
  • 44. Wild Lettuce
  • 45. Chicory
  • 46. Endive
  • 47. Sorrel
  • 48. Horse Radish
  • 49. Acacia - Ark of Covenant
  • 50. 'Stacte'
  • 51. 'Onycha'
  • 52. Aaron's Rod - Almond
  • 53. 'Indigo' plant
  • 54. 'Dyer's' Woad
  • 55. Madder

Age of Judges

  • 56. Hyssop
  • 57. Brown Berried Juniper
  • 58. Common Juniper
  • 59. Syrian Juniper
  • 60. Phoenician Juniper or 'Sabine'
  • 61. Wormwood - Artemisia
  • 62. Buxus - Box Tree
  • 63. Myrtle
  • 64. Jotham's Bramble - Lycium
  • 65. Willow - Samson's 'green withes'

Age of Kings

  • 66. Six-Rowed Barley
  • 67. Spelt Wheat
  • 68. Field Peas
  • 69. Field Beans
  • 70. Terebinth Tree
  • 71. Aspens - David's Mulberries
  • 72. Holly Oak or Absalom's Oak
  • 73. Cedar of Lebanon
  • 74. Green Bay Trees
  • 75. Butcher's Broom
  • 76. Brutian Pine - the Thick Trees
  • 77. Genista - the Juniper
  • 78. Weeping Willow of Babylon
  • 79. Phoenician Rose
  • 80. Spiny Burnet
  • 81. Nymphaea - Lotus Bean

Age of the Prophets

  • 82. Elijah's Juniper
  • 83. Wild Gourd or Squirting Cucumber
  • 84. Dove's Dung - Star of Bethlehem
  • 85. Amos's Wormwood and Hemlock
  • 86. Acanthus
  • 87a. Onopordum acanthium
  • 87b. Blue Thistle
  • 88. True Nettle
  • 89. 'Yellow Flag' or Iris pseudacorus
  • 90. Stone Pine
  • 91. Oleander
  • 92. Field Cucumber
  • 93a. Palestinian Buckthorn
  • 93b Palestinian Burweed
  • 93c. Syrian Christ-Thorn
  • 94. Fitches - Nigella
  • 95. Cumin
  • 96a. Narcissus Tazetta
  • 96b. Pancratium
  • 97. The 'Strange' Vine
  • 98a. The Saltwort - Salsola
  • 98b. The Soapwort
  • 98c. Egyptian Fig - Marigold
  • 99. Sea-Purslane - Job's Mallows
  • 100. Retam Broom - Job's Junipers
  • 101a. Cockle in the Barley: corn cockle
  • 101b. Wild Arum
  • 101c. Fleabane
  • 102.
  • Oak of Bashan
  • 103. Butcher's Broom
  • 104. Zizyphus or 'Jujube' Tree
  • 105. Palestinian Buckthorn
  • 106a. Ezekiel's Bread - Beans
  • 106b. Lentils
  • 106c. Millet
  • 106d. Fitches or Spelt Wheat
  • 107. Buxus or Box Tree
  • 108. Ebony Tree
  • 109. Cedar of Lebanon
  • 110. Acacia
  • 111. Myrtle
  • 112. Oil-Tree - Eleagnus
  • 113. The Fir Tree - Pinus Pinea
  • 114. The Pine - Pinus brutia
  • 115. Jonah's Gourd: Castor Oil Plant
  • 116a. The Saltwort
  • 116b. The Soapwort
  • 116c. Egyptian Fig - Marigold

Solomon's Garden

  • 117. Wormwood
  • 118. 'Apples of Gold'- Apricot
  • 119. The Mandrake
  • 120. The Pomegranate
  • 121. Spikenard
  • 122. Saffron
  • 123. Walnut Tree Rose of Sharon
  • 124a. Narcissus Tazetta
  • 124b. Palestinian Tulip
  • 124c. Autumn Saffron
  • 124d. Pancratium 'Lilies of the Valleys'
  • 125a. Oriental Hyacinth
  • 125b. Sternbergia
  • 125c. Madonna Lily
  • 125d. Turk's Cap Lily
  • 126. Rose  by the brook: Oleander
  • 127a.The Resurrection Plant
  • 127b. Oleander

New Testament

  • 128. Carob Bean
  • 129. Spelt Wheat - 'Lilies of the Field'
  • 130a. Anemone
  • 130b. Anthemis nobilis
  • 130c. Anthemis tinctoria
  • 131. Mint
  • 132. Rue
  • 133. Cumin
  • 134. 'Dill'
  • 135. The True Vine
  • 136. The Fig Tree
  • 137. 'Tares' among the Wheat
  • 138. Black Mustard
  • 139. The Mulberry Tree
  • 140. Phragmites Reed
  • 141. The Olive of Gethsemane
  • 142. The Judas Tree
  • 143. 'Crown of thorns' bush
  • 144. The Reed-Mace

'Sceptre'

  • 145. The Arundo Reed on which the sponge with vinegar was impaled
  • 146. Flax, of which Jesus's '?seamless' garment was made
  • 147. Aloes, providing the fragrant oil for His body
  • 148. Immortelle