plant

Mulberry

Nature

The named Morus tree of silk feed and Mediterranean fruit. Not paper-mulberry as Broussonetia tapa cloth, and not fig as the Lots soft fruit.

Also known as Morus · White mulberry · Morus alba

Roman religion

  • Mulberry appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats the mulberry among trees tied to silk-worm leaf and orchard speech. A named mulberry in that encyclopedia, not silk as dye cloth already walked and not a modern berry dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Mulberry is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists mulberry (συκάμινος) fruit and related preparations among cooling and astringent drugs. A named mulberry in that handbook, not silk-feed horticulture alone and not fig as the neighboring soft fruit already walked.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Mulberry appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 4 turns the mulberry’s fruit dark from Pyramus and Thisbe’s blood under the tree. A named mulberry metamorphosis in that poem, not a roman orchard seat alone and not every berry dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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