Hi everyone, this is my first message. In the past years, there have been extensive attempts to identify IRL counterparts for the literary depicted Athelas from The Lord of The Rings Book. Here is the exquisite thread with the interesting suggestions emerged on stackexchange. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/244820/is-kingsfoil-derived-from-basil Here I'm trying to identify the real plant used as Athelas in The Lord of The Rings and Hobbit movies. I started a thread on stack exchange, https://scifi.stackexchange.com/que...ant-was-used-as-athelas-in-lotr-hobbit-movies and on European and New Zealand Botanical forums in order to gather hypoteses and check them. I also wrote to Weta Workshop, the only mean I could think of to try to reach for Peter Jackson. So this is officially a worldwide attempt. A the moment the European Botanists advise tend to exclude the Lamiaceae family and point the attention towards Chaenostoma cordatum or a white Periwinkle species. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=501464 Here the pictures I gathered from the scenes where Athelas appears, at a 0.25x speed in order to be as defined as possible, along with the videos at the exact moment. 0:50 2:45 0:00 Thanks to all who will join.
Anybody? At the moment one of the other botanical forum I'm in touch with proposed Chaenostoma cordatum cv. Snowflake, because of the small flowers, narrowing the research to NZ weeds, here are some pictures https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6803&taxon_id=501464 But I'd love to hear what you think of it
