or have both male and female flowers growing on the same tree. Mulberry fruit creates a mess. Mulberry trees can be such a messy nuisance that towns have no other choice but to ban them.

A male starling on a mulberry tree. (Himanshu Chaudhary ... a reddish-chestnut throat and a pale rusty-orange chest. The female more subdued in colouration, though both possess white to lemon ...