Broussonetia. It sounds so.... delicious, like that Italian bread with tomato and garlic. But no, that's bruschetta. What we're looking at there is the paper mulberry, a type of flowering tree with impressive Round fruit called a drupe. The fruit of the broussonetia can be eaten, sure, but not so much for flavor than for its laxative qualities. You've got to be careful with your paper mulberry no matter what, because once these Rounds fall and get spread around, the tree can form invasive thickets in ideal climates. Invasive, indeed.

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