Sumptuous Plot Forest

Latin sūmptuōsus, expensive — derived from sūmptus (expense). As a color modifier, sumptuous implies a saturated-and-rich-and-luxurious quality, the deep-rich color of Burgundy-and-Champagne-Court late-medieval silk-and-velvet livery in the Très-Riches-Heures manuscript tradition. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to opulent and lavish.

Old English plot, small-piece-of-ground. As a color modifier, plot implies a tilled-garden-bed quality, the visual register of English-cottage-garden-and-allotment hand-tilled-and-cultivated small market-garden vegetable-bed surfaces under English-cottage-garden-and-allotment summer-tilling light. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to yard and garden in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.