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

At 11:40 AM 3/30/2005, you wrote:
> Lucky, I think it is the Broussonetia papyrifera and I have never seen the 
> fruit either.  I just saw the tree/bush in the town of Yoshino.  I asked 
> if it is the same as they feed to silk worms and was laughingly told it 
> wasn't. I have never seen it in this Country, or didn't recognize it if I did.
I'll bet you've seen it, but just didn't recognize it.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bog/msg030055586114.html.
It's largely a nondescript shrubby thing with dark, dull green, somewhat 
fuzzy leaves.  Nothing to really distinguish it as a great landscape plant, 
and I can't really imagine why someone would plant it, as such, other than 
as a screen along a property line.
It's on the noxious weed list in some states.

Lucky