mrsimperless
07-19-2006, 07:08 PM
So I was drinking beer with a friend at a baseball game today and all these Japanese Beetles kept taunting us and trying to drink our beer. This prompts my friend to tell me a story about being out watering his grass the other day and he accidently sprays some water on his mulberry tree causing a large mass of Japanese beetles to swarm out of the tree.
Now, I don't think that my friend actually has a mulberry tree, nor do I think that even he believes he has one. It was just the first tree name that came to his mind, so he said it since he doesn't give a crap about trees and has no idea what kind of trees are in his yard. And I can't say either that I've ever tasted a mulberry myself nor could I identify one on sight. But I did remember the old children's song about dancing near or around a mulberry bush. This led us to the argument of whether mulberry's actually come from trees, bushes, or both.
When I returned home I attempted to ask Wikipedia the answer to this question, but the results haven't been entirely conclusive. There is an entry for mulberry tree, but none for mulberry bush. This would seem to indicate that mulberry tree is in fact correct. However, searching for mulberry bush does produce hits and it is referenced in other entries. For example, a portion of the entry for "Shunde" states the following: "Tourist attractions include the Qinghui Garden (清晖园) featuring fish ponds surrounded by osmanthus, bamboo and mulberry bushes, and the nearby Qinghai Yuan restaurant, known for its classic Cantonese cuisine." Apparently there are others who corroborate the elusive bush's existence.
So who can resolve this drunken stand-off?
Now, I don't think that my friend actually has a mulberry tree, nor do I think that even he believes he has one. It was just the first tree name that came to his mind, so he said it since he doesn't give a crap about trees and has no idea what kind of trees are in his yard. And I can't say either that I've ever tasted a mulberry myself nor could I identify one on sight. But I did remember the old children's song about dancing near or around a mulberry bush. This led us to the argument of whether mulberry's actually come from trees, bushes, or both.
When I returned home I attempted to ask Wikipedia the answer to this question, but the results haven't been entirely conclusive. There is an entry for mulberry tree, but none for mulberry bush. This would seem to indicate that mulberry tree is in fact correct. However, searching for mulberry bush does produce hits and it is referenced in other entries. For example, a portion of the entry for "Shunde" states the following: "Tourist attractions include the Qinghui Garden (清晖园) featuring fish ponds surrounded by osmanthus, bamboo and mulberry bushes, and the nearby Qinghai Yuan restaurant, known for its classic Cantonese cuisine." Apparently there are others who corroborate the elusive bush's existence.
So who can resolve this drunken stand-off?