Free visit

Name: Free visit
Start: 2019-09-20T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-22T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Mûrier - Arbre remarquable

Visit free of the Blackberry of Combejean.

20 - 22 September 2019Passed

BLACKBERRY OF COMBEJEAN [REMARKABLE TREE]
September 21st and 22nd - continuously
This tree sits enthroned there for more than 400 years. It is listed(classified) since 2015 as «Remarkable Tree of France». In 1602, to boost(relaunch) silk production in France, Henry IV takes a royal prescription imperative on every parish to possess a tree nursery of blackberries and a magnanerie. Hollow indoors, metallic strapping affixed at the top of the trunk prevents the tree from opening, it was put, there is a hundred of years. The trunk measures 3,7 metres in circumference, and 3,90 metres at the level of strapping. He(It) has a diameter of 9 metre foliage as a 7 metre height.
Place(Square) of the Blackberry - Combejean
City council of Pierrerue
www.pierrerue-combejean.fr
pierrerue.mairie@wanadoo.fr
04 67 38 01 55

About the location

Mûrier - Arbre remarquable

Place du Murier, 34360 Pierrerue

Hérault
Occitanie

This mulberry tree has been planted under the royal ordinance of Henry IV for more than 400 years. A true star of the municipality, it has been ranked «Remarkable Tree of France» since 2015\. In 1602, in order to revive silk production in France, Henri IV issued a royal decree requiring each parish to own a mulberry nursery, since their leaves were used as food for the silkworm caterpillars. As the tree is hollow inside, a metal strapping was installed a hundred years ago on the top of its trunk to prevent it from opening. The trunk is 3.7 m in circumference and 3.90 m in girth. It has a 9 m canopy diameter and a height of 6-7 m.