Morus alba is another name for "white mulberry". This edible plant is both used for medicine and to feed domestic animals including silkworms. This plant thrives better in moderate and warm temperatures. The plant has often been used to help stress and diabetes as it's a plant long been used in traditional medicine.
The white mulberry has appeared in a story by Ovid about tragic lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. Both lovers are prevented from marrying because of their feuding parents. So the couple talk to one another through cracks in a wall. They both agree to meet at the tomb of Ninus, beneath a large white mulberry tree. Thisbe appears early at the destination but she encounters a lion with blood on it's mouth after a hunt. he runs away in fear, dropping her veil. Soon, Pyramus arrived there and saw the lion, next the Thisbe's veil. Thinking that Thisbe had been killed by the lion, Pyamus feels so distressed that he commits suicide using his own sword. Then a lot of blood spattered everywhere, and on the white mulberry. Thisbe soon returns and discovers dead Pyamus laying on his sword. She becomes so upset that she falls upon the same sword, and her body collapsed beside her dead lover. More blood covered the white mulberry leaves and stained it red. The gods created from this tragedy a new species of red mulberry in memory of this loving couple.
There is an English nursery rhyme song about the mulberry bush.
"
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning."
The rest of the song is here:
Here we go round...
