Trees

[Tjanaparh]

Mulberry is perhaps one of my most favourite trees.
When I was living in Russia we had one big Tut tree near our house entrance, and as a chiled I loved it.
In Yerevan(armenia) all is full of Tut, and with my wife we were collecting much of it.
We have mostly 4 kinds of tut:
1)one with very big black berries(taste sweet to sour)
2) one with big white berries(tase only seewt)
3) one with mixed white to pink big berries(extra sweet)
4) one with small red to black berries (only sour)

[faye]

we had a big mulberry tree also and i used to feed the leaves to my pet silkworms. love the fruit. i miss having some available to make some jam.

[Tjanaparh]

I like them fresh or dried, specially if you make dry mulberry juice mixed with pistacchio flour

[faye]

'dry' mulberry juice? how do you make this?

[Tjanaparh]

You make jice, or bettter not juice but like crash the mullberries to a kind of half liquid mass, mix it with enough pistacchio powder to form small balls and let them dry .
If You want exactly dry juice (I didn't exactly talk about it), it is more complicated. You take the same mullbery mass, try to clean them from seed via a kind of fine net, then you have to boil the mass on a low flme for long time, put it in flat container with walls covered lightly with oil, and than you have to wait some days untill it dries(but mullberry isn't th best for such things, better is plum or apple). What you can do il also boil mulberry juice to syrup, its very tasty!

[faye]

i would not cook friuit juice. interesting recipe though.
making jam was complicated enough for me.

[Tjanaparh]

I also prefer the fresh fruit, dried fruit, or the juice dried with pistacchio as i said, its a pity to cook fruit

[faye]

banana palms.

[faye]

mind you, i quite like fried bananas with vanilla ice cream.

[Tjanaparh]

I love this one :

[faye]

mandarin marmalade is nice. finished my last jar yesterday

[Breshna]

Unusual Tree.

[faye]

it looks like a type of strangler fig. they are parasitic and grow from another tree which dies and the strangler is still standing. a seed gets dropped by a bird or whatever, lodges into a crack or amongst dead leaves, then the roots grow down to the ground and the rest grows up and out.
have seen some amazing latticework strangler fig trees in australia. different type than that.

[faye]

early stages of a strangler fig in australia.

[faye]

also one of the figs. (ficus)