top of page
Verbena bonariensis.jpg
Shop categories

WE WILL BE CLOSED FOR SITE IMPROVEMENTS AND REFURBISHMENT FROM 5 DECEMBER 2024 TO 5 FEBRUARY 2025

EARLIEST COLLECTION OR DELIVERY DATES WILL BE AFTER 5 FEBRUARY 2025.

Morus alba
+2

Morus alba

Store / Trees
SKU 1707
€12,19
Price incl. 6% IVA (6%) €0,69
Plants growing-on in our nursery and available soon - reserve now
Size options
Production or collection dates
In stock
1
Save this product for later
Share this product with your friends
Pin it
Morus alba
Store / Trees
Plant Details
Plant Type: A medium sized fruiting deciduous tree
Aspect: Full sun but will take partial shade
Flower colour: White
Flowering period: Spring
Size - height & spread : 10 - 20 metres high
Soil type/requirements: Better in an improved free draining soil
Water requirements (established plants): Monthly deep irrigation in high summer
Native Distribution: Southeast Asia, China

Morus alba, known as white mulberry, common mulberry and silkworm mulberry, is a fast-growing, small to medium-sized deciduous tree which grows to up to 10–20 m tall when mature. The species is native to China and India and is widely cultivated and naturalized throughout much of the warm temperate world. They thrive in mildly acidic, well drained, sandy loam and clayey loam soils, but they can withstand poor soils as well and are sometimes used in soil recovery plant mixes.

The fruit are edible when ripe (although they are not a single fruit as such, but a compound cluster of several small drupes). They are variable in colour, from white tinged with purple, pink, red and dark purple when ripe. They are smaller than the black mulberry, up to 1.5 cm in diameter and supposedly more bland, although when dried I can't taste the difference. Like the black mulberry they are eaten fresh, dried or preserved and made into jams and sherbets, particularly in the middle-east. Very nice when dried and added to mixes of nuts or muesli.

More Details
The white mulberry is widely cultivated for it's foliage, used to feed the silkworms employed in the commercial production of silk. It has been grown widely from the Indian subcontinent west through Afghanistan and Iran to southern Europe for more than a thousand years for leaves to feed silkworms. In the botanical world, it is also notable for the rapid release of its pollen, which is launched at greater than half the speed of sound! This could mean the pollen is problematic for asthmatics and hay fever suffers.
Morus alba is used extensively in urban gardens across the desert cities of the southwestern United States where it is prized for its shade and fruit. Like any fruit tree, the better the conditions they have the better the fruit they will produce, but this goes for establishing all trees, you need to look after them in the early years, whether you want fruit or not - some deep summer watering's and a thick organic mulch will help them establish.

Show More
Display prices in: EUR

How to use our online shop

  • You can make an order by selecting plants with quantities and putting them in your Shopping Bag.

  • By placing an order you are not obligated to purchase the plants online and you will not be asked for any payment at this stage.

  • We will confirm prices, availability and delivery/collection dates with you by email.

  • Only when all the details of your order are agreed, will we send you an agreed Factura/Invoice and request payment from you.

  • Once an order is agreed we require a 50% payment to secure the plants. Plants in the shopping basket are not reserved until an order is placed.

​​

  • Availability - the store contains 3 availability categories

​​

  • Plants ready for despatch, collection within 14 days

  • Plants we have but they are still growing into their containers. These are offered for reservation and will be released once they are ready. An estimated date for their availability is given.

  • Plants that we only hold a limited stock of, or only propagate occasionally or on demand. This also includes plants we are going to propagate in the near future.

​​

​

bottom of page