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From: "Ralph Hancock" <hancock@dircon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Lotus trees
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 00:36:48 +0100
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David Meadows wrote:

> PS Does anyone know what the heck a 'gelsi' tree is? That's the Italian
> (maybe Sicilian) name spelled phonetically (the g is actually somewhere
> between a g and a ch and the l is that strange liquid somewhere between an
> l and an r) and all the relatives have one in their yard. One variety
> produces a white berry that's sort of like a mulberry/raspberry in shape;
> the other variety has a deep purple berry of the same shape.

My standard Italian dictionary gives _gelso_ (m) as mulberry tree. European
mulberries (actually Asian in origin) come in two colours: black (Morus
nigra) and white (M. alba), the former being for eating and the latter
mainly for feeding silkworms. The American variety is red (M. rubra). Yes,
morus is feminine.

Ralph Hancock
hancock@dircon.co.uk
www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm

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