To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulberry Paper
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:56:03 -0600
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.