Re: Fruiting mulberry?
John MacGregor wrote:
>
> Nan,
>
> My face is red and the world is far more complex than I ever suspected. I
> didn't look it up before I wrote what I did, so I deserve to have egg all
> over my face. Moira Ryan, quite diplomatically by private e-mail, has
> pointed out to me that Morus can be either dioecious or monoecious, and that
> the typical fruiting mulberry is self-fertile. The only mulberries I have
> experienced have been dioecious ones. I was aware that the "fruitless"
> varieties were male clones, but I did not know that they were suppressed
> hermaphrodites. Please accept my apologies.
>
Handsomly said John!!
For the benefit of anyone who may be interested I repeat what I said to
you...
> > This is a quite surprising and interesting family as it contains not
> > only mulberries, but figs, hops, breadfruits, Osage orange and even
> > Cannabis!!!
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
