Mulberry Trees: Fast Growers

Our Mulberry trees are coming along very nicely. They apparently do grow very fast when juveniles and slow down as they age stopping at about 10-15m. As you can see from the photos ours are already 8m after less than two years. They are already fruiting as well much to the boys' delight.

We have Asian Mulberries and their fruit is sweet and a deep purple. Mulberry leaves are ecologically important as the sole food source of the silkworm as well!
"Worldwide, mulberry is grown for its fruit. In traditional and folk medicine, the fruit is believed to have medicinal properties and is used for making jam, wine, and other food products. As the genera Morus has been domesticated over thousands of years and constantly been subjected to heterosis breeding (mainly for improving leaf yield), it is possible to hybridize breeds suitable for berry production." - Wiki

Mulberry Trees: One Year

Who doesn't love Mulberries? I remember as a kid sneaking down to a mate's place several blocks away to gorge ourselves on Mulberries. Of course the stains across our clothing always gave us away but oh... such sweet crime...

Here we have Mr & Mrs Mulberry one year on. They are doing well though we cut Mr Mulberry back as he is only there to propogate Mrs Mulberry's juicy offerings. Sounds a little sad and somewhat pornographic I know but that's the nature of things.

These trees give great shade once full grown as well so it will be pleasant in a few years to sit in and around these ones... and gorge on mulberries of course...

Jayson