Näsiniine (Näsiniin)
Mezereon, spring-flowering shrub, Daphne mezereum, with poisonous berries. One of its alternative names, surmalill (death flower), seems to drive the point home quite well. Tree/shrub group, see Paakspuu.
Neeme (Neem)
Cape, headland, foreland. Located at the base of the ‘U’ between Kopli and Paljassaare. No relation to the patriarch of Estonian conductors (music, not buses) Neeme Järvi.
Neemiku (Neemik)
Small cape. Nowhere near a cape, large, small or Transylvanian, but appropriately near Mäe, nowhere near a mountain...
Neiuvaiba (Neiuvaip)
Lit. maiden’s covering, carpet or tapestry, epipactis, helleborine, Epipactis spp., terrestrial orchids with a fondness for wet environments, although not universal: soo-neiuvaip, marsh helleborine, E. palustris, yes, but less so the city-friendly laialehine neiuvaip, broad-leaved helleborine, E. helleborine or the tumepunane neiuvaip, dark-red or royal helleborine, E. atrorubens, which prefers warm and dry. One of the Mähe flower-name group, see Nurmenuku.
