As you bask in the warmth of the home hearth, look back on the gardening season and consider what you might want to do come spring. Got a question? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online ...

Answer: Have you ever noticed bark buckling off the tree trunk? I first noticed it in a mature mulberry tree in my yard in Las Cruces a few years ago. The bark on the west side of the trunk had ...

Q. I have a mulberry tree in my backyard. My one neighbor says it is an invasive tree, and another says it is a native tree and good to have. Which neighbor is correct? Answer: Your mulberry tree ...

Researchers have transformed invasive paper-mulberry bark into high-performance textile fibers without spinning wheels or petrochemicals. Writing in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, the ...

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 ...