Just returned from 5 days in Chicago. Happy to be home. On inspection, many of the fruit trees are showing baby fruits now. The Illinois Everbearing Mulberry has now begun to leaf out, and there are embryonic mulberries on the branches. Or, those might be male flowers. Im not sure. It's still small, so I don't expect a lot.
Since there is not much to photograph here are some public domain botanical illustrations of mulberries.
According to
wikipedia mulberries grow easily from large cuttings, so I stuck some prunings into the same large container that now has some tomato plants. That worked well last year for King figs.
Since I'm growing this tree by the backyard orchard culture method, pruning to small size, open center, summer pruning, I'm in uncharted territory for this fruit. It will be nice to see how it does this year.
Could this leaf be medicine?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if mulberry leaves are medicinal. I think they are in some herbal books. I read somewhere that they can be eaten too. Don't take my word for it - I only know about the fruit.
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