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Living Monument–Bombycis Mulberry

Date: 22/11/2025 | Source: Naenara (En) | Read original version at source

There is a bombycis mulberry in the vicinity of the Pohyon Temple in the DPRK’s famous mountain of Myohyang.

The living monument is believed to be planted around 1680, and is a deciduous broadleaved species belonging to the mulberry family.

The stem bark is gray brown and slightly cracked.

Mostly oval-shaped leaves sprout alternately on the limbs.

The tree is 14.6 metres high, 4 metres round at the root neck and 3 metres round at the chest height, and 16.9 metres across the crown from east to west and 15.1 metres from north to south.

The tree has branches whirling around up from the middle into a multitude of limbs, forming a round canopy.

As the largest and oldest of the same species in the country, the tree is of great academic significance and adds beauty to the scenery of Mt Myohyang.

Kim Wi Hyok

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