Mulberry
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I just got a house, and the front garden has a bunch of things that I don't recognize. Since mulberry, grape, and rhubarb have been identified in that bed, I wouldn't be surprised to find these are also edibles. I just don't know w…
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Mulberry
Morus
WD
Also known as
white mulberry (EN)
Chinese white mulberry (EN)
fruitless mulberry (EN)
downing mulberry (EN)
silkworm mulberry (EN)
weeping mulberry (EN)
murier (EN)
moreira (EN)
amoreira branca (EN)
shatut (EN)
wit moerbei (EN)
How to sow mulberry: Cuttings, transplant grafted tree
Sun requirement for mulberry: Plant in Full Sun
Mulberries are a genus of 10-16 deciduous flowering trees in the Moraceae family, which also includes figs, breadfruit, and sassafras. The trees are native to temperate regions around the world and divided into three main types: Black, Red, and White. They produce long clusters of multiple fruit, about 2-3cm long. Fruit are white, green, or pale yellow when immature. With the exception of White Mulberries, fruit mature from pink to red to dark purple or black. Fruit have a deep, sweet flavor and are eaten fresh, made into jams or wine, and baked into desserts. Drape trees with netting to ensure a harvest, since birds love the fruit. Mulberry leaves are the food source of the silkworm, whose cocoon is used to make silk. The White Mulberry has become an invasive exotic in North America. More growing information is available in individual species entries.
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Mulberry facts
Lifespan
Perennial
living more than two years
Height
1500cmRow Spacing
450cmGrown for
fruit harvested 1 time
Optimal temperature
20–28 °C
Absolute temperature
13–45 °C
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal rainfall
700–2500 mm/year
Absolute rainfall
300–5100 mm/year
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal soil pH
5.5–7.5
Absolute soil pH
4.3–8.3
FAO EcoCrop
Crop cycle
180–330 days
FAO EcoCrop
Max altitude
3300 m
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal light
clear skies to very bright
FAO EcoCrop
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For mulberry, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 13°C and a shortest growing cycle of 180 days at its best temperature, about 1980 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your mulberry will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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Where mulberries grow
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Who's planted mulberries
- Skud Thornbury front garden · Ballarat, Victoria,...
- corvi Lower Stone Hill Plot · salt spring island
- bigblen Orchard · Rapaki Road,...
- fe2h2o Orchard · North of the River...
- At_Home_In_My_Garden AHITG_Fruit 2 · Brisbane, Queensland
Mulberry harvests
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Skud harvested 2 handfuls, weighing 0.05 kg.
about 13 years ago
Skud harvested 2 handfuls, weighing 0.05 kg.
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 180 to 330 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Morus alba L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Dilleniidae Urticales Moraceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | tree |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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