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| | mulberry -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Old fustic, or yellowwood, is derived from the heartwood of dyer's mulberry, a large, tropical American tree (Chlorophora tinctoria, or Maclura tinctoria) of the mulberry family, Moraceae. |
 | | Mulberry trees are cultivated in temperate regions for silk production, for their fruit, and as ornamental trees. |
 | | The leaves of the white- to pinkish-fruited white mulberry, native to Asia, are fed to silkworms. |
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