mulberry
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It involves feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, harvesting their cocoons and extracting the silk fibres.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
That problem is largely attributed to paper mulberry trees, which were planted extensively during the city's early development.
From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026
Hiemer smuggled part of his mother’s earthy remains to his garden, he said, and planted a mulberry tree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
But one thing managed to survive Operation Big Bang: a prominent, gnarled mulberry tree that survived the 1947 blast and is now known today as the “Miracle of Helgoland.”
From National Geographic • Jan. 17, 2024
Without silkworms to tend or mulberry trees to pick, without neighbors to gossip with or goats to milk, my grandmother filled her time with food.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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