Showing posts with label mulberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mulberry. Show all posts

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Mulberry

The mulberries are in fruit.

Here's fruit from the weeping mulberries.

-the weeping mulberries during a snowstorm this past winter-

And here are some white mulberries. White mulberry leaves are a silkworm's preferred food. This is a cultivated variety; in the wild, white mulberry (Morus alba) fruit is actually dark red or purple. (Forget about science--it's because of Pyramus and Thisbe, ancient Rome's Romeo and Juliet.)

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Mulberry

I found this mulberry tree on a hill above Sylvan Water, one of the four ponds in the cemetery. A mulberry tree (Morus) has leaves of three different shapes:

oblong,

lobed,

or half and half.