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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 09:41 AM 3/30/2005, Doc L. wrote:
> Just as a matter of interest for mulberry aficionados, there is a paper 
> made in Japan, "Yoshino Paper" which is very fine, made from fibers 
> of  mulberry trees.


Hey, Doc.
Is that made from M.alba, or from fibers from the paper mulberry, 
Broussonetia papyrifera?
I see this one occasionally, as an unkempt shrubby kind of thing, usually 
at the edge of the yard of older homes around town here, and a bunch of 'em 
at the UK Robinson Forest complex over in eastern KY.  Have never seen a 
fruit on any of them, which supposedly looks something like a Che or small 
Osage Orange fruit, so I suspect that most of what I've seen were 
non-fruiting male plants.

Lucky