Yerushalmi Sukkah 3:2 ירושלמי סוכה ג׳:ב׳

MISHNAH: A robbed or dried up myrtle is disqualified. Of an ashera²A tree worshipped as a pagan deity, forbidden for all use. or a seduced city³An apostate city practicing idolatry which has to be destroyed and all its property burned, forbidden for all usufruct, Deut13:13–18., it is disqualified. If it was truncated, its leaves broken out, or its berries more than its leaves, it is disqualified; if one reduced their number it is qualified but one may not reduce on the holiday.

HALAKHAH: It is written, and a branch from the rope tree¹Lev.23:40: You shall take for yourselves on the First Day a fruit of the splendor tree, date-tree palms, a branch of the rope tree, and brook-willows. The lulav is the young palm branch. While in the verse it is called “palm”, because the leaves of the palm-tree spread out from the spine of the branch like fingers of a hand, it is traditional to take a young branch with the leaves still tightly clinging to its spine. From this the name לולב “tube” (cf. Note 27)., a tree whose branches cover it and it rises like plaiting⁴¹The tops of the leaves look like forming a spiral.. Which one is this? The myrtle. If you would say the olive tree, it rises like plaiting but its branches do not cover it. If you would say the vine⁴²Arabic (from the Persian) זרגון “gold colored”, used for branches of the vine (French sarment)., its branches cover it but it does not rise like plaiting. Therefore, which one is this? The myrtle.

Ḥiyya bar Ada in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish. They taught⁴³That the berries of the myrtle twig have to be removed. about the blackish ones. Why? Because they do not resemble its wood or because its fruit is ripened? What is the difference between these? If it is used to grow green ones. If you are saying, because they do not⁴⁴Clearly this has to be deleted. resemble its wood, they do not resemble its wood. Therefore the reason must be because its fruit is ripened.