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Mulberry tree Traditional Cache

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K.E.T.: This was an easy one, so apparently gone!

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Hidden : 11/3/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This Mulberry tree is just across the Inlet from where I found the  Mulberry bush for cache #: GC6WA8K. There you can find a lot of information about the tree/bush. Is this tree the parent of that bush?




Mulberry Tree

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.



Mulberries are fast-growing when young, but soon become slow-growing and rarely exceed 10–15 m (33–49 ft) tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple and often lobed and serrated on the margin. Lobes are more common on juvenile shoots than on mature trees.

The trees can be monoecious or dioecious.The mulberry fruit is a multiple fruit, 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) long. Immature fruits are white, green, or pale yellow. In most species the fruits turn pink and then red while ripening, then dark purple or black, and have a sweet flavor when fully ripe. The fruits of the white-fruited cultivar are white when ripe; the fruit of this cultivar is also sweet, but has a very bland flavor compared with darker varieties.



Vincent van Gogh featured the mulberry tree in some of his paintings, notably Mulberry Tree (Mûrier, 1889, now in Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum). He painted it after a stay at an asylum, and he considered it a technical success.

 

 

The cache is a tied in, camoed, "small" pill bottle. Yes, you have to push hard to open and close it. Please BYOP and put everything back as you found it, including the camo. Enjoy a cache page with less info to scroll through to get to this part!

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