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a tree so horny it can change its own sex mid-life to get pollinated
means A deciduous tree of the genus Morus that bears clustered, blackberry-like edible fruit, famous as the sole food of silkworms.
from From Old English 'morberie,' a marriage of Latin 'morum' (mulberry, also the fruit of the bramble) and 'berie' (berry). The Latin itself traces back to Greek 'moron,' the mulberry fruit. Along the way the first 'r' softened into an 'l' — a common shift called dissimilation, where two similar sounds in a word drift apart so they're easier to say — turning 'mor-' into 'mul-.' The same Latin 'morum' is a cousin of the deep purplish-red we still call mulberry.
- fastest plant
- its stamens fire pollen at half the speed of sound
- silk addiction
- silkworms eat only mulberry leaves, nothing else
- color swap
- berries ripen from white to red to deep black
- sidewalk crime
- fallen fruit stains pavement purple for weeks
- ancient gossip
- Romans called it the wisest tree for budding late
mulberry street new york — historic street in manhattan's little italy, center of italian-american community since 1800s
mulberry paper thai — traditional handmade paper from mulberry bark, produced in thailand and laos for centuries
mulberry silk production — silk produced by bombyx mori silkworms fed exclusively on white mulberry leaves, 90% of world silk