Similarly, Chinese tallow and Chinaberry should be off your planting list, unless you wish to risk messing up the soil composition. Fruit trees like Java plum and white mulberry make poor planting ...

The paper mulberry evolved its uniquely fibrous inner bark around 31 million years ago, long before the woody tree was first used for bookmaking during China's Tang dynasty. This adaptation, which ...

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Arizona ash has excellent yellow fall color. Chinese tallow has strong red fall color and decorative white seedpods. Tree of heaven, star of the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, is stately and dramatic.

Next, I have a white mulberry tree. The Chinese use the foliage from this tree to feed their silkworms. It too is a big tree and needs to be trimmed every year.