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Illinois Everbearing Mulberry

bare-root trees
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$42.25
Item: 7374-A
stock details: 3–6' bare-root trees
Morus alba × M. rubra

30×20' White County, IL, 1947. Sweet black fruit begins ripening in mid-July and continues for several weeks into late summer or longer. Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery in Falmouth, ME, had fruit on his tree into October! Self-fruitful. Zone 4/5.
ships in spring
Quick Details
Color
purple-black
Hardy to Zone
4
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Additional Information

Mulberries Morus spp.

Sweet flavorful purple-black 1" blackberry-like fruit is delicious fresh, in sauces, pies, fruit leather or smoothies. What fruit you don’t pick, the birds will. Great tree for viewing a huge variety of birds up close. Plant it next to the chicken pen where it will rain chicken feed into the yard for several weeks, or put down a sheet to collect the fruit as it falls.

Dense round-topped tree is one of the last to leaf out in the spring. Fast growing, even in poor soils. We offer grafted female varieties, which are self-fruitful.

Growing Mulberries

  • Soil: Adaptable, but prefers moist well-drained soil. Rugged! Withstands pollution, drought, wind and salt.
  • Sun: Full sun to part shade.
  • Pollination: Mulberries are dioecious, but female trees do not need a male to set fruit. You just need one!
  • Spacing: 20–30' apart
  • Planting: Consider a site with northern exposure to delay flowering. See our planning and planting and pests and diseases pages for instructions on soil prep, planting and pest control.

Shipping

Items from our perennial plants warehouse ship from early March through mid-to-late May, weather depending, beginning with warmer USDA zones.