Ps.42-Ps.106

A small bushy herb whose bundled stalks were used as a ritual sprinkler — from Passover doorposts to the foot of the cross.

The date palm — whose branches meant royal welcome and whose fruit fed the poor — stood at the centre of Palm Sunday.

The wide-branched fig relative that Zacchaeus climbed — a common tree of the poor, whose fruit had to be pierced before it could ripen.