Middle-earth plants

This is a list of plants that appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.

In Quenya, an Elven tongue devised by Tolkien, the general term for plants, as distinct from animals (kelvar), is olvar.

Tolkien's writings frequently contain detailed and sympathetic descriptions of plants (fictional or otherwise) and their habitats.

A tree that grew at the Field of Cormallen in North Ithilien of Gondor. The name translates from Quenya as 'golden-red tree', referring to the color of the tree's foliage.Culumalda was not mentioned by J. R. R. Tolkien himself in published writings, it only appears in Christopher Tolkien's Appendix to the published Silmarillion.

David Day in his A Tolkien Bestiary conjectured that the elves found culumalda reminiscent of the Laurelin, and that it was thin and tall.

A species of tree that grew in Gondor. The casket in which the Crown of Gondor was kept after the death of Eärnur and before the coming of Elessar was made of lebethron, as well as the walking-staves presented by Faramir to Frodo and Sam in Ithilien.

A huge Elven tree that grew in Tol Eressëa, Númenor and in Lothlórien. Mallorn (pl. mellyrn) is the Sindarin name of the plant, its Quenya equivalent being malinornë; both mean 'golden tree' and refer to the leaves' colour in autumn and winter. The tree is most fully described in Unfinished Tales:

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