#Morus rubra

[helluvatimes]

Round The Mulberry Bush

Morus rubra or Red Mulberry Tree fruiting in the Hort Park here. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

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Munch Mulberries Much?

Tons of Dwarf ever bearing mulberries. Morus nigra are supposed to be the best tasting of the mulberries. If you look online, experts on mulberries say the dwarf ever bearing variety is not a nigra. So, even nurseries mislabel this tree. If you want the nitty gritty try this link. These were sold to me as: “Dwarf everbearing morus nigra” the link above says that that is not correct: That…

[fthrdvs]

Munch Mulberries Much?

Tons of Dwarf ever bearing mulberries. Morus nigra are supposed to be the best tasting of the mulberries. If you look online, experts on mulberries say the dwarf ever bearing variety is not a nigra. So, even nurseries mislabel this tree. If you want the nitty gritty try this link. These were sold to me as: “Dwarf everbearing morus nigra” the link above says that that is not correct: That…

[mekha-draws]

🥭🍌🍏 !

--terra-tortoise

🥭Show off a dragon who's doomed by the narrative and talk about them!

everyone here is haunted by the narrative where do i even begin lmao(?

actually thinking of it, Morus might be a better example here. He was born with a silver spoon, anything he could ever imagine or desire was within his reach and under his whims. A spoiled child that wore his parents' patience thin more often than not to the point that they took harsh measures to limit his excess and give him proper eduation and values to not take everything for granted. Being young at the time he just handwaved their lectures.

Once reaching adulthood he came to meet Rubra, a coatl of lower class, humble but also one to keep real to him and not shy to confront him and his attitude which made something in his demeanor change gradually coming to appreciate her being in many ways. Their friendship (and love) was denied by his parents and while they are conscious that they might have gone overboard in their actions they knew it was for the best to rid of the rotting issues before Morus did something really reprochable.

Morus never knew who was the perpetrator, where she was disposed of or the reasons if any; but the quick dismissal of his superiors made him take actions to answer those questions on his own, setting on a journey he came to learn of her fate and of those that came to guard her last resting place, a place he is not allowed to enter as they don't deem him worthy of his apologies and presence no matter how much wealth and threats he throws to earn their... whatever he needs to get to her.

He is haunted by her memory and everything both enjoyed together. And so he currently struggles to figure what to do to get it all back, to get the only one he really cares for, back.

🍌Show off your favorite couple/throuple/etc and share some information on how they first met, fell in love, etc!

ok im gonna go banana here sorry in advance (also gonna keep it super vague on some details because this is something im figuring to adapt so it makes better sense later hehe)

I did mention their relationship is a bit of a conflict and yeah, thats very much it at first lol. Their lore in general is based on another concept/worldbuilding thing im just re-adapting from. For the moment just know that chimeras, manticores, jailers and hermits are titles for sacred/revered beings, with the former two being always at conflict with each other to the point of being considered natural enemies.

Sen is a trained hunter, at first that was not her role but ones beyond her clan knew the potential for a greater chimera to be made from her and so she was enlisted and trained properly to fit that (and had some greater education on the side as well, ordered by her own clan who didnt want her to become some mindless fool nor weapon if they could avoid that).

Joule on the other hand was the runt of the litter on a continuous effort to create [the] manticore. Althought his chances for survival were slim he was kept safe by his sibling(s) to spare him the rejection of the rest of the clan. Eventually he would become the true manticore their clan was aiming to create but that came with a cost and his own escape.

Their first meeting was a messy one, not one of Sen's best days on the prowl and just another disastrous one for Joule. At this point in time Sen spends her days chasing and exterminating beasts and pests to earn her living beyond the watching eyes of the masters she resents; she got notice of the bounty on some "disruptor beast" and while she would usually reject any quest involving other dragonkind or anything ambiguous in nature she took it on insistence of a friend.

Once the identity of the disruptor beast was cleared as Joule, she was about to spare him without much fanfare but her instinct took in after understanding the true creature before her, getting each other into a fight -one where Joule was the less experienced one- as he tried to avoid as much as he could, all coming to an end as he managed to incapacitate the other by a lucky hit forcing Sen to break away.

Future encounters would follow the same pattern, sometimes conflict being initiated by Joule himself as he gained more confidence but most of them ending in bitter stalemates until both became too tired of the routine and eventually learned to bear each other long enough to keep a truce and figure what the hell they were falling into.

Their relationship starts with a slow mutual understanding of their shitty situation(s) and how they might be able to help each other and become better than what they were meant to be. Feelings come and go but neither have the experience or knowledge to call it love (yet) they will be it's just gonna take a while~

🍏Show off a dragon family and talk about them! Do you have siblings, parents & kids, etc? (If you don't have any families in your lore, choose one of the other prompts instead!)

There is more found families here actually(?, I have a couple WIPs but they are so early in what I wanna do with them that I dont feel confident saying anything for them yet ;-;

Instead I'll share another pathetic boyo because that's fun <3

and of course, it's a tundra! Sarqi only has two modes: epic traveller with a knack for grandiose storytelling involving his many discoveries across the land and sad cursed motherfucker that is just one bad day away of getting murder-killed by vengeful spirits coming for the many trinkets he has pilfered without knowledge.

And really, one would think he is getting his ass cursed on purpose to set some sort of record but he does not seem to connect the dots between his misfortune and the ominously lighted piece of scrap he just picked up outside some abandoned shack in the middle of the road.

"That's just superstisions! why would this random broken badge be haunted it's just kinda ugly and rusted and I doubt there is much value on it to even be worthy of causing despair over it" *said badge belonged to an old era sorcerer and it was a gift from their wife, the ghost is kinda mad that he stole it from his unmarked grave*

(oh also! he was born my country's equivalent of april fools which is just a bit funny to me in particular)

[5-and-a-half-acres]

I’ve been hunting for the true red mulberry (Morus rubra) for a long time but could only find white mulberries or hybrids. I checked Sheffield’s after seeing your post about growing trees for your daughter and of course they have red mulberry. Your posts are beautiful and helpful, thanks for doing what you do!

I am glad I helped you out.

Thanks so much for saying that!

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Do you have a favorite tree?

I'm not sure I could pick a favourite, but some trees I have particularly enjoyed are: Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) Red maple (Acer rubrum) Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina) Red mulberry (Morus rubra) Redbud (Cercis canadensis) Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus) Canadian serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) Birch Spruce Oak Magnolia Crabapple Weeping cherry Bristlecone pine Giant sequoia

[unnervinglyferal]

My current list of native plants that I should plant, I have no idea if these are already on the land

Which is why I need to survey it

And see if we have any other invasive plants, currently we have: the multi flora rose, the honeysuckle, and the stupid fucking mile-a-minute vine that I’m pulling tomorrow

I can’t remove the giant fields worth of multi flora roses or the giant honeysuckle bushes right now but I can get rid of that stupid fucking vine before it takes over the damn yard

Anyways here’s the list of surprisingly a lot of edible plants and wetland plants that are native and I should plant:

Rubus odoratus — flowering raspberry

Vitis riparia — river grape or Vitis labrusca — fox grape

Rubus recurvicaulis — arching blackberry

Viburnum opulus — highbush-cranberry

Aquilegia canadensis — red columbine

Impatiens capensis — jewelweed, spotted touch-me-not

Lobelia cardinalis — cardinal-flower, red lobelia

Comarum palustre — marsh-cinquefoil, purple marsh-locks

Ranunculus caricetorum — swamp buttercup, swamp crowfoot

Symphyotrichum ciliolatum — Lindley's American-aster

Adiantum pedatum — northern maidenhair fern

Thelypteris palustris — marsh fern

Woodsia glabella — smooth cliff fern

Dryopteris campyloptera — mountain wood fern

Calla palustris — water arum, wild calla

Erythronium americanum — American trout-lily

Lilium philadelphicum — wood lily

Cypripedium acaule — pink lady's-slipper

Juniperus communis — common juniper

Prunus serotina — black cherry

Rhododendron canadense — Canada rosebay, rhodora

Rhododendron groenlandicum — Labrador-tea

Ribes hirtellum — hairy-stemmed gooseberry

Morus rubra — red mulberry

Ribes triste — swamp red currant

Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry

Tilia americana — American linden

Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry

Sambucus nigra — black elderberry

Aralia nudicaulis — wild sarsaparilla

Matteuccia struthiopteris — fiddlehead fern, ostrich fern

Allium tricoccum — ramps, wild leek

Looks like you've got your work laid out for you, huh?

Try not to break your back and don't get burned in the sun.

[nelmondodelgiardinaggio]

Morus alba, M. nigra, M. rubra (Gelso bianco, nero, rosso): semina

[pinhoborges]

Amora Nome científico: Morus nigra (amora-comum, amora-preta ou amoreira-preta), Morus Alba (amora-branca ou amoreira-branca) e Morus rubra (amora-vermelha). Na mitologia grega, a árvore de amora foi dedicada à deusa Minerva. A amoreira era considerada a mais sábia de todas as árvores, vez que esperava passar todo o período de frio para brotar suas folhas. A …

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Morus rubra - Red mulberry

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

We found two mulberry trees growing along the edge of the road! This is my first time trying them. It's pretty heavily picked over by birds though so the one I got was only partially ripe. Still nice, just a little sour

[headspace-hotel]

Food sovereignty

Food sovereignty

Food sovereignty

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO ME!!

Do y'all have any idea how many edible plants there are that we don't eat for cultural reasons (racism and classism?)

Example #1: Amaranth

Amaranth refers to any of plants from genus Amaranthus for our purposes, some of these are domesticated to varying extents

Amaranthus species are primarily important in the USA due to being our most costly agricultural weed.

This plant has declared war on industrial monocrop agriculture. Like all the best weeds, it is ridiculously adaptable. Its resistance to herbicides like Roundup keeps getting stronger and more expansive. In 2022, Amaranthus palmeri was found with SIMULTANEOUS resistance to SIX herbicide modes of action (six separate families of herbicide!)

So remember Roundup Ready corn? Yeah, that shit is basically obsolete in many places because every weed under the sun has evolved glyphosate resistance. So Monsanto spent ten years developing crop varieties resistant to Dicamba as well so crops could be sprayed with Dicamba to control weeds, and within 5 years, Dicamba-resistant weeds were proliferating.

I could go on forever about how european agriculture ran roughshod over the north american continent fucking up things you wouldn't think COULD be fucked up through pure malicious ignorance, but rest assured the era of chemical-dependent agriculture is in its decline because weeds can evolve faster than we can develop new technologies.

Guess what, though? Amaranth was a CROP for Native Americans and still is, domesticated varieties are popular in Mexico, and it's high in protein, gluten free, and a dual purpose crop where you can harvest the leaves as vegetables 2-3 times a year without impacting the eventual seed harvest.

Researchers are already investigating it for its utility as a crop in areas that will be heavily impacted by climate change.

North America USED to be flourishing with food sources cultivated carefully by Native Americans for the benefit of the whole ecosystem, we had abundance of oaks (boil out the tannins and acorns are edible!) hickory nuts, pecans and American chestnuts, but Europeans stopped doing controlled burns and chopped down virtually all forest in the East, and now they're dominated by more fire intolerant species rather than the nut-producing species...and of course the American chestnuts fell victim to introduced chestnut blight.

Canebrakes! Ough! Did y'all know we have native BAMBOO?? The Southeast used to be covered in immense swaths of bamboo forest, and it was almost entirely obliterated (extincting the Carolina parakeet and helping with extinction of passenger pigeons in the process). Genus Arundinaria, you can look it up. American bamboo shoots can be used culinarily just as bamboo is eaten in Asian regions where bamboo grows.

Arundinaria bamboos have been called "the plastic of the Southeastern Native Americans" because they used (and still use) it for EVERYTHING. Bedframes, baskets (WATERPROOF!), backpacks, containers, fish traps, blowguns, flutes, you name it. Unlike some introduced Asian bamboos you may know, it grows very straight and has no groove (sulcus) in between the nodes, meaning it's hard and doesn't deform at all as it grows.

If you cook milkweed, it's edible! In ethnobotanical databases it's referenced a TON as a vegetable. The flowers can be used to turn lemonade pink. Virginia springbeauty has tiny potato-like tubers that can be eaten the same way as potatoes.

Did y'all know we have wild grapes? They're referenced in To Kill a Mockingbird, they're called scuppernongs. Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries...all native to the USA. We have passion fruit (Passiflora incarnata), we have mulberries (Morus rubra), we have native wild plums and cherries, and PAWPAWS.

I got to eat wild pawpaws last year. I got a whiff of something unbelievably sweet and banana-y in the woods and climbed down the hillside to find the source, and spent like half an hour messily devouring ripe pawpaws in a pawpaw grove. It was literally the most incredible fruit experience I've ever had. They are like a perfect blend between a mango and a banana, with a velvety, creamy, soft texture that is way better than either. You can show me a picture of a pawpaw and I'll start salivating.

These trees grow wild all over the place in rural areas. Why don't we sell pawpaws in stores then? Capitalism. Pawpaws are way softer and more fragile than bananas and spoil really quickly after ripening, so they can't be shipped long distances, and thus they're almost forgotten because a fruit that can only be obtained from small local growers is useless to Walmart.

So many of these plants grow eagerly in disturbed environments. Wild strawberries love gravelly, rocky areas. Sunflowers were actually considered noxious weeds a hundred years ago. Why aren't we aware of them? Mowing, weed-whacking and bulldozing has extirpated food plants to be replaced with useless, invasive grass.

"Oof ouch we have to figure out how to feed the planet aaaaaa there's too many people on Earth to grow enough food" Over thousands of square miles we literally obliterated dozens of edible food plants and replaced them with invasive lawn grass

i promise im going to stop posting about it soon but the most insane thing about the Banana Discourse is that like. there are already lots of fruits that are of limited availability in the USA because they're not grown there and they haven't enforced massive export economies for them at gunpoint. you'd think by the way these people talk that usamericans are rioting in the streets and committing mass suicide because they can't buy a papaya or a durian or a dragonfruit at the gas station. like there's already fruits that are comparatively scarce in the USA and everyone seems to have survived that being the case but you point out that socialist revolution would require a scale back from Total Banana Ubiquity and people legitimately act like it's white genocide

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Native Plants I’ve Actually Seen Growing Wild in Southern Ontario

Acer saccharinum (silver maple) --along the sides of highways

Acer saccharum (sugar maple) --GTA ravines

Achillea millefolia (yarrow) --GTA ravines

Allium schoenoprasum (wild chives) --GTA ravines, Ridgetown

Allium tricoccum (ramps) --Niagara region escarpments

Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot amaranth) --fallow areas in the GTA

Ambrosia artemisiifolia (ragweed) --fallow areas in the GTA

Ambrosia trifida (giant ragweed) --parks in the GTA

Amelanchier spp. (saskatoon/serviceberry) --GTA ravines

Arisaema triphyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit) --GTA ravines

Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry) --ravines and parks in the GTA

Asarum canadense (Canada ginger) --GTA ravines

Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) --fallow areas, ravines, and parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort) --Niagara region escarpments

Betula spp. (birch) --ravines and parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Bidens spp. (beggar ticks) --GTA ravines

Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) --GTA parks

Ceratophyllum demersum (hornwort) --GTA ravines (native in freshwater across the globe anyway)

Circaea lutetiana (enchanter’s nightshade) --fallow areas in the GTA

Commelina spp. (dayflower) --fallow areas in Windsor

Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda dogwood) --GTA wooded areas

Cornus sericea (red osier dogwood) --GTA ravines and in Windsor riverside parks

Crataegus spp. (hawthorn) --GTA ravines and parks

Echinocystis lobata (wild prickly cucumber) --GTA ravines

Elaeagnus commutata (silverberry) --GTA parks and fallow areas

Epilobium ciliatum (fringed willowherb) --fallow areas in the GTA

Equisetum spp. (horsetail/scouring rush) --GTA ravines and fallow areas

Erigeron spp. (fleabane) --GTA parks and fallow areas, Ridgetown

Erythronium americanum (trout lily) --GTA ravines and parks

Eutrochium maculatum (Joe-Pye weed) --GTA parks

Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry) --fallow areas in the GTA

Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) --Windsor green spaces

Geranium robertianum (herb robert) --Windsor green spaces

Geum aleppicum (yellow avens) --GTA fallow areas

Geum canadense (white avens) --GTA fallow areas

Geum macrophyllum (large-leaved avens) --GTA fallow areas

Gymnocladus dioicus (Kentucky coffee tree) --GTA ravines

Helianthus spp. (sunflower) --GTA fallow areas and parks

Heracleum maximum (cow parsnip) --GTA ravines

Hordeum jubatum (foxtail barley) --GTA fallow areas

Humulus lupulus (hops) --GTA ravines

Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf) --GTA ravines

Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) --GTA ravines and in Windsor riverside parks

Juglans nigra (black walnut) --GTA ravines

Lactuca canadensis (Canadian lettuce) --GTA fallow areas

Lilium michiganense (Michigan lily) --GTA ravines

Lupinus perennis (sundial lupine) --GTA parks

Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower) --GTA ravines

Maianthemum racemosum (starry false solomon’s seal) --GTA ravines and parks

Maianthemum stellatum (starry false solomon’s seal) --GTA ravines

Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern) --GTA ravines

Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) --GTA ravines and parks

Morus rubra (red mulberry) --fallow areas in Windsor, GTA parks

Myosotis laxa (smallflower forget-me-not) --GTA fallow areas

Oenothera biennis (evening primrose) --GTA fallow areas

Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) --GTA ravines

Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) --fallow areas and ravines throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Parietaria pensylvanica (Pennsylvania pellitory) --GTA fallow areas

Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) --Windsor fallow areas and GTA ravines and parks

Persicaria lapathifolia (curlytop smartweed) --GTA fallow areas

Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple) --GTA ravines and parks

Portulaca oleracea (purslane) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA (native globally anyway)

Potentilla norvejica monspeliensis (ternate-leaved cinquefoil) --GTA fallow areas

Prunella vulgaris (selfheal) --fallow areas and ravines throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Prunus virginiana (chokecherry) --Windsor fallow areas, GTA ravines and parks, Niagara region escarpments

Pteridium aquilinum latiusculum (western bracken fern) --GTA parks

Quercus spp. (oak) --wooded areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac) --parks and fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to Collingwood

Ribes spp. (currants) --GTA ravines and parks

Ribes spp. (gooseberries) --GTA ravines

Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) --GTA ravines and parks

Rosa spp. (roses) --GTA ravines, parks, and fallow areas

Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry) --ravines, parks, and fallow areas in Hamilton and GTA

Rubus odoratus (purple-flowered raspberry) --GTA ravines and parks

Rubus strigosus (American red raspberry) --GTA parks

Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed susan) --GTA parks

Salix spp. (willow) --GTA ravines

Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry) --Windsor riverside parks, GTA ravines

Sambucus racemosa (red elderberry) --GTA ravines and parks

Smilax spp. (greenbrier) --GTA parks

Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod) --parks and fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Sorbus spp. (mountain ash) --GTA ravines and parks

Streptopus spp. (twistedstalk) --GTA parks

Symphoricarpos spp. (snowberry) --GTA parks

Symphyotrichum ericoides (heath aster) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) --GTA parks

Tilia spp. (linden) --GTA ravines

Trillium grandiflorum (white trillium) --parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) --GTA parks

Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail) --marshes in Essex county and GTA

Urtica gracilis (slender nettle) --GTA ravines

Uvularia spp. (bellwort) --streams in Windsor green spaces

Verbena hastata (blue vervain) --GTA ravines

Viburnum lentago (nannyberry) --GTA parks and Ridgetown ravine

Viburnum trilobum (highbush cranberry) --Ridgetown

Viola sororia (wood violet) --fallow areas and wooded areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Vitis riparia (riverbank grape) --GTA fallow areas, ravines, and parks

Waldsteinia fragarioides (barren strawberry) --GTA ravines and parks

Xanthium strumarium canadense (Canada cocklebur) --GTA parks and fallow areas

I’ve likely seen many others and just couldn’t identify them, but there are a lot I’ve never seen growing wild. What I’m hoping is that some of the native species I have in my garden will make their way to the nearby ravine. If I get around to it, though, I might just take a walk with some Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) seeds in the fall. They certainly seem to successfully germinate in my garden whether I want them to or not (don’t have space for them to go crazy). Can’t see why they wouldn’t in a natural swamp area.

[algorizmi]

You've heard of four-leaf clover, get ready for two-leaf mulberry. Might even be more likely, only took ~1000 leaves to find this one.