Badges

 

A clan crest  badge, sometimes called a plant badge, is an emblem, usually a sprig of a specific plant, that is used to identify a member of a specific Scottish clan.  They are usually worn in a bonnet behind the Scottish crest badge or attached to the shoulder of a lady's tartan sash.   According to popular folklore clan badges were used as identification in battle.

Crest Badge:   A cat-a-mountain salient guardant Proper.

Motto:  Touch not the cat bot a glove (Touch not the cat without a glove). 'Bot' may mean "without" or "ungloved," either being a warning to those who would harm the clan.

 

Gaelic Name:  Mac an Toisich.

 

The Red Whortleberry is the modern plant badge of Clan Mackintosh. Lus nam braoileag in Scots Galic.    It is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit.