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  MULBERRY Fruit Facts
Adaptation: The white mulberry, and to a lesser extent the red mulberry, are quite tolerant of drought, pollution and poor soil.
White mulberries can grow to 80 ft. and are the most variable in form, including drooping and pyramidal shapes.
The fruits of white mulberries are often harvested by spreading a sheet on the ground and shaking the limbs.
www.crfg.org /pubs/ff/mulberry.html   (1689 words)

  
  Ohio Perrenial and Biennial Weed Guide - WHITE MULBERRY
White mulberry is common in the eastern U.S., and is found in over three-fourths of the counties of Ohio, mostly along fencerows of unattended areas and in other open rural and urban habitats.
White mulberry is a small- to medium-sized, fast-growing, deciduous tree with a short, thick trunk that branches into numerous limbs to form a bushy, spreading crown.
White mulberry is a fast-growing, short-lived plant that is becoming a problem in no-till fields.
www.oardc.ohio-state.edu /weedguide/singlerecordframe2.asp?id=200   (870 words)

  
 Ohio Trees - Mulberry
White Mulberry, a species native to China, has been planted (and escaped) in both Europe and North America, and is more refined and dense in its branching, becoming 40 feet tall and 40 feet wide under optimum conditions.
Mulberry has a polymorphic type of leaf - that is, on the same branch, there are often multiple shapes to be seen (like the leaves of Sassafras).
Mulberry is a dioecious species, composed of male (creamy) and female (green) flowers borne on separate trees in mid-spring.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /tabid/5388/default.aspx   (563 words)

  
 Mulberry - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Mulberry, common name for a family of mostly woody flowering dicot plants (Dicots), widespread in the tropics, with some extensions into temperate...
Mulberry (Morus) is a genus of 10–16 species of deciduous trees native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and North America, with the majority of the species native to Asia...
Mulberry is a formerly commercial (now available free of charge) e-mail client marketed by Cyrusoft from approximately 1995 to 2005.
encarta.msn.com /Mulberry.html   (239 words)

  
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White mulberry was named for the pale coloration of the leaf buds, not the fruits (which may vary in color from white to fl).
The leaves of this mulberry are smooth on the underside or have hairs along the veins, while the undersides of red mulberry leaves are noticeably hairy to the touch of one’s fingers.
Mulberry leaves have a variety of shapes, usually with unlobed leaves, resembling those of basswood, predominating in the mulberry’s crown, while leaves with two or three lobes are common on lower branches and sprouts or young trees.
www.k-state.edu /audubon/Mulberry.htm   (517 words)

  
 White Mulberry - Champion Trees - Monroe County
The White Mulberry tree (Morus alba L.) is actually a native of central and east China that has naturalized in Europe and North America.
This giant White Mulberry tree, in a class by itself, measured 17 feet 3 inches in circumference, 47 feet in height, with a crown spread of 70 feet, yielding a (B.I.) Bigness Index of 272.
The previous Champion White Mulberry tree is located in Dardanelle, Arkansas and is 5 feet 1 inch in circumference, 28 feet in height, with a crown spread of 30 feet, yielding a B.I. of 97.
www.uaex.edu /monroe/forestry/champion_trees/white_mulberry.htm   (491 words)

  
  Mulberry
The white mulberry is native to eastern and central China.
The white mulberry, and to a lesser extent the red mulberry, are quite tolerant of drought, pollution and poor soil.
The fruits of white mulberries are often harvested by spreading a sheet on the ground and shaking the limbs.
userwww.sfsu.edu /~dcruz/mulberry.html   (1671 words)

  
  White Mulberry   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The White Mulberry, scientific name Morus alba, is a short-lived, fast-growing small to medium sized tree to 15-20 m tall, native to eastern Asia.
On young, vigorous shoots, White Mulberry leaves may be up to 20 cm long, and deeply and intricately lobed, with the lobes rounded.
White Mulberry is extensively planted throughout the warm temperate Northern Hemisphere, and is naturalized in urban areas of the United States, where it hybridises to some extent with the U.S. native Red Mulberry Morus rubra.
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wh/white_mulberry.html   (216 words)

  
 WHITE MULBERRY : Encyclopedia Entry
The White Mulberry (Morus alba) is a short-lived, fast-growing, small to medium sized tree to 15-20 m tall, native to eastern Asia.
The White Mulberry is scientifically notable for its rapid plant movement.
White Mulberry is extensively planted throughout the warm temperate Northern Hemisphere, and is naturalised in urban areas of the United States, where it hybridises to some extent with the U.S. native Red Mulberry (Morus rubra).
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/White_Mulberry   (288 words)

  
 white mulberry, Morus alba (Urticales: Moraceae) @ Forestry Images
White mulberry is a small (30-50 ft. tall) deciduous tree that invades disturbed areas throughout the United States.
White mulberry is very similar to the native red mulberry but can be distinguished by the flower color (whitish flowers for white mulberry) and the leaves.
White mulberry is native to Asia and was introduced in colonial times as a food source for silkworms.
www.forestryimages.org /browse/subimages.cfm?sub=6050   (254 words)

  
 Fruit As Medicine: Morus Fruit (Mulberry)
Mulberry fruit is classified in the modern Chinese Materia Medica as a blood tonic, and is listed along with herbs having similar traditional uses such as ho-shou-wu (Polygonum multiflorum, root), cooked rehmannia (Rehmannia glutinosa, root), ligustrum (Ligustrum lucidum, fruit) and lycium (Lycium chinensis, fruit).
Mulberry is a kind of nourishing tonic medicine that can broadly be used to cure some debility symptoms when used with other restoratives.
An electuary, made from a prescription of mulberry with medlar, ligustrum, and schizandra, can nourish and enrich the blood; the wine made by immersing the mulberry in rice wine or grape wine, is a medicament for weakness after diseases that can also be used to tonify masculine vitality and benefit overall vitality.
www.itmonline.org /arts/morus.htm   (2496 words)

  
 mulberry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The mulberry family is most important as the basis of the silkworm industry; silkworms feed on the leaves of the mulberries (genus Morus) and sometimes of the Osage orange (Maclura pomifera).
Mulberry fruits are tender and juicy and resemble flberries.
Fiber plants of the mulberry family include the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) and the upas tree (Antiaris toxicara) of the East Asian tropics, where the bast fiber is utilized for rough fabrics and for paper, often after a crude retting process.
www.bartleby.com /65/mu/mulberry.html   (573 words)

  
 Red Mulberry
White mulberry, on the other hand, may sometimes grow to a height of 50 feet and 16 inches in diameter.
The twigs of red mulberry are moderately stout and zigzagged on new growth.
The buds are larger than on white mulberry and have a two-toned appearance with green and brown bud scales.
mdc.mo.gov /nathis/plantpage/flora/motrees/p32.htm   (342 words)

  
 Mulberry, Common
Mulberry trees do not begin to bear fruit early in life, and few fruits can be expected from a tree before it is fifteen years of age.
Mulberry trees are not easily killed, and old examples that have been reduced to a mere shell have been rejuvenated by careful pruning and cultivation.
Mulberry Juice is obtained from the ripe fruit of the Mulberry by expression and is an official drug of the British Pharmacopoeia.
www.nisbett.com /herbs/m/mulcom62.html   (3489 words)

  
 White Mulberry - Plant of the Week
As a child I never realized the mulberry fights my brothers and I participated in were made possible by one of the many get-rich-quick schemes that have plagued farmers for centuries.
The white mulberry is a 50-foot tall deciduous tree from China that is the traditional food for silkworms.
In 1839, the bubble burst and the value of the multicaulis mulberry dropped to almost nothing, probably on the news of the hostilities that were brewing in China over its decision to shut down Great Britain’s opium import trade.
www.arhomeandgarden.org /plantoftheweek/articles/White_Mulberry.htm   (581 words)

  
 Mulberry Madness
The white mulberry is an import from China, where it has been cultivated for millennia as a food for silkworms, and there’s one a half-block from our house.
Mulberries are dioecious, meaning that the flowering parts are on different trees—males and females—and the fruits and seeds are produced on the female plants.
Because the female mulberry trees produce huge amounts of fruit that stain everything they touch, most people plant the male trees, the so-called fruitless mulberries that are grown from cuttings, or clones.
www.fiery-foods.com /dave/mulberries.asp   (1413 words)

  
 Ohio Trees, Bulletin 700-00, Morus – Mulberry
White mulberry is a small tree 30—40 feet in height.
The white mulberry and paper mulberry, which are sometimes found in waste places, are introduced species which have, to some extent, become naturalized.
The red mulberry is a small tree, rarely 50 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, often found growing in the shade of larger trees.
ohioline.osu.edu /b700/b700_32.html   (554 words)

  
 Mulberry - Morus Alba - White Mulberry - Silk Worm Mulberry
Habitat: It is native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and North America, with the majority of the species native to Asia.
Uses: Mulberry fruit is used to treat weakness, dizziness, tinnitus, fatigue, anemia, and incontinence.
Mulberry can help treat chronic diseases of the digestive tract, improve digestion, stimulate the appetite, promote gastric juice secretion and eliminate constipation.
www.iloveindia.com /indian-herbs/mullberry.html   (202 words)

  
 Preserving the legendary mulberry
There are only about 80 red mulberry trees left in the country...and extinction looms large because of hybridization with the white mulberry (a related non-native species), says botany Prof.
As part of the National Recovery Plan for Red Mulberry, Husband and masters student Kevin Burgess are assessing the extent and impact of red mulberry interbreeding with the white mulberry.
The researchers theorize that the pollen from the white mulberry is creating a type of pollution over the red.
www.uoguelph.ca /research/news/articles/1998/preserving_legendary_mulberry.shtml   (601 words)

  
 Morus alba
Mulberry leaves are sometimes eaten as a vegetable and are useful as a cattle fodder.
Sapwood is white to yellowish-white, heart-wood golden brown, darkening after exposure; light to moderately heavy, straight-grained, not liable to split, but shows tendency to warp, moderately durable under cover, easy to work and finish, used mainly for hockey sticks, tennis and badminton rackets and racket presses, cricket bats, house building materials, agricultural implements, and furniture.
In India, mulberry is either grown as a field crop (plants kept in form of bushes and the leaves harvested several times a year for the multivoltine race of silkworms) or as a tree (leaves harvested only once a season for rearing univoltine races of silkworms).
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/duke_energy/Morus_alba.html   (2187 words)

  
 Mulberry
Members of the mulberry family are distinguished from the other members of the order by the presence of milky sap containing latex.
Two species are native to North America: red mulberry, widespread in the eastern United States; and Texas mulberry, a small tree or shrub that occurs scattered across the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
White mulberry has been cultivated for centuries in China, and its leaves are the main food of the silkworm.
www.charliechucksfruitwood.com /Mulberry.htm   (249 words)

  
 botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Mulberry, Common - Herb Profile and Information
The cultivation of the Mulberry in Spain is implied by a reference to the preparation of Syrup of Mulberries in the Calendar of Cordova of the year 961.
Mulberry trees are not easily killed, and old examples that have been reduced to a mere shell have been rejuvenated by careful pruning and cultivation.
Mulberry Juice is obtained from the ripe fruit of the Mulberry by expression and is an official drug of the British Pharmacopoeia.
www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/m/mulcom62.html   (3518 words)

  
 White Mulberry | Plant Information
At maturity, the typical White Mulberry will reach up to 50 feet high, with a maximum height at 20 years of 50 feet.
The White Mulberry is easily found in nurseries, garden stores and other plant dealers and distributors.
Note that cold stratification is not required for seed germination and the plant cannot survive exposure to temperatures below -18°F. White Mulberry has Medium tolerance to drought and restricted water conditions.
www.gardenguides.com /plants/plant.asp?symbol=MOAL   (227 words)

  
 Rose Magazine - White Mulberry White Oak White Spruce White Walnut Willow Hybrid Willow Oak Yellow Buckeye Green Giant ...
The White Mulberry is an excellent and handsome shade tree and is often planted on field edges in irrigated, semi-arid lands where it is also valued for fruit, poles and timber.
Mulberries thrive in full sun and dislike crowded conditions; they prefer deep soils and need good drainage; they are frost resistant.
White Spruce trees can grow rapidly if placed in a well drained location and it is adaptable to many soil types.
www.rosemagazine.com /marketplace/ornamental_trees/p10   (849 words)

  
 Mulberry — Infoplease.com
The fruit was originally white and became blood-red from the blood of Pyramus and Thisbe.
The tale is, that Thisbe was to meet her lover at the white mulberry-tree near the tomb of Ninus, in a suburb of Babylon.
Mulberry - Mulberry The fruit was originally white and became blood-red from the blood of Pyramus and Thisbe.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/mulberry.html   (300 words)

  
 white mulberry definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
white mulberry definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
fruit of white mulberry tree: the edible berry of a Chinese mulberry tree
Chinese tree: a mulberry tree that produces white mulberries.
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861712928/white_mulberry.html   (68 words)

  
 white mulberry: Morus alba (Urticales: Moraceae)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
White mulberry is a small (30-50 ft. tall) deciduous tree that invades disturbed areas throughout the United States.
White mulberry is very similar to the native red mulberry but can be distinguished by the flower color (whitish flowers for white mulberry) and the leaves.
White mulberry is native to Asia and was introduced in colonial times as a food source for silkworms.
www.se-eppc.org /subject.cfm?sub=6050   (266 words)

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