Red Mulberry - Morus rubra

Moraceae - Mulberry Family
"A Year With the Trees" - Tree Number 63
Red Mulberry
Morus rubra

Spring

 Red Mulberry - Morus rubra

This Red Mulberry lives at the Asheville Botanical Gardens.  www.ashevillebotanicalgardens.org

The buds had not opened when I photographed this tree around the end of March.

 Red Mulberry - Morus rubra

Summer

Red Mulberry Tree 

I stood under this tree on a hot day in June, and the beautiful tree gave me a shady place to get out of the heat.

There were berries in the tree, red and purple mulberries.   I tasted a mulberry; it was so sweet!   I know why people make mulberry wines, pies and jam.  The berries ripen in June; they are red and purple oblong-shaped fruit. Birds and humans and probably any animal that can reach or find these berries love them.
The green leaves are toothed and heart shaped. Some of the leaves are lobed; the leaves have a rough texture and are hairy underneath.  They have pointed tips.
The twigs have a milky sap when broken.

Taste the natural, fresh tastes of summer. Smell the flowers and herbs of summer. Feel the breeze of summer winds and the heat of the summer sun on your skin. Look and listen to all the birds and insects that are flying and singing day and night. After the sensory awareness, your heart will always feel light.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~John Muir

Fall 

The Red Mulberry

The Red Mulberry

The Red Mulberry tree that I love to photograph and sit with lives at John C. Campbell School. On the day I photographed this tree in September; the leaves were almost all gone with only a few remaining.  The ones that are left are yellow and looked sparkling in the sun today.  folkschool.org

Winter

I will get out and photograph and journal about this tree this coming winter.  Please check back.


For the love of the trees,
Becky