Fabulous hidden black mulberries on the Isle of Wight uncovered thanks to Chris Kidd curator Ventnor Botanic Garden. Total known on the island now over 30…

Strange fruit of the Paper Mulberry - not a mulberry species in fact but Broussonetia papyrifera (in the same family though . In Kew Gardens today. Each of the orange lobes is in fact a fruit (drupe). So it’s a multiple fruit - like the mulberry.Tastes very much like jam.

White mulberry tree. St James’s Park. Parakeets and squirrels have scoffed most of the fruit - which was ripe a couple of weeks ago. My St James walk tomorrow will come here. See Morus Londinium’s website under events.

Little oak tree in Hampstead’s churchyard festooned with wasp galls. My Seek app says it’s Andricus quercuscalicis (Knopper gall wasp).

The mulberries are big, ripe and very juicy in the secluded gardens of the Inns of Court. Join London’s award-winning mulberry heritage project’s co-founder on a lunchtime walk on Wednesday 16th www.eventbrite.com/e/midweek-mu...

Another lunchtime mulberry heritage walk in full fruit season. Yum! clicks.eventbrite.com/f/a/XDYdL71Y...

Just tasted a luscious black mulberry from Oxford’s oldest tree in Balliol College (1611 or thereabouts). Tree being treated a bit rudely though as a dumping area. Hopefully just today.

The Myatts Fields mulberry was one of the first I documented for the Morus Londinium uk mulberry tree project back in 2016. www.moruslondinium.org/research/mya...

Morus Londinium has heard that the lovely black mulberry tree in Myatts Fields has split. With expert care the tree could continue to grow or regenerate, if it can be made safe. Thanks Diane Rutland for the photos.

A black mulberry in Belgium chosen as a living memorial to asbestos victims. www.moruslondinium.org/research/sin...

Veteran black mulberry tree at Keats House Hampstead (London) with male (left) and female (right) catkins. The female flowers will produce “mulberries”.

Thrilled to receive a copy of the Japanese edition of my book Mulberry.

An inky trip down memory lane thanks to an old mulberry tree www.moruslondinium.org/research/ste...

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Black mulberries in the frost this morning in St James’s Park (London).

A few pale green leaves still clinging to this plane-leafed White Mulberry (Morus alba platanifolia) in Corporation Row Clerkenwell near site of an 18th c “mulberry garden” (pleasure garden). www.moruslondinium.org/map/829-Cler...

The Black Mulberry at Charlton House (London) is over 400 years old. In this podcast This Old Tree’s Doug Still looks at the tree’s origins with Peter Coles (Morus Londinium), historian Stella Butler and the House’s garden team. www.thisoldtree.show/episode-deta...

Do mulberry trees live for ever? Morus Londinium looks at some “Phoenix” trees. www.moruslondinium.org/research/pho...

www.moruslondinium.org/research/pho... Read about Mulberry trees that refuse to die…

Moving London mulberries - aka Morus Londinium - to Bluesky from X