Morus alba
White Mulberry

 This plant is considered invasive.

 Plant Type:
 Growth Forms:
 Hardiness:
 Deciduous / Evergreen:
 Flower Notes:
Green (Greenish and insignificant catkins, with staminate spikes twice as long as pistillate, in March)
 Foliage Notes:
Green (Spring/Summer); Multi-Colored (Fall coloration is variable, ranging from yellow-green to bronze or yellow)
 Fruit Notes:
Multi-Colored (Emerging white as a syncarp of drupes, becoming red, and finally a deep purplish-black; edible)
 Ultimate Height:
30-50 feet
 Ultimate Spread:
30-50 feet
 Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to different soils
 Range:
China, Japan
 Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves (2-6") are alternate, simple, glossy dark green, ovate to cordate with variable lobing and crenatedentate margins (highly lobed on young fast-growing juvenile plants to undivided on mature plants). Buds (1/8 - 1/4"), are born off-center from leaf scar, brown and tan, imbricate, globose to obovate and display fine hairs along bud scales. Accessory buds are often present. Stem color is from yellow-green to brownish-gray. Orange-tan lenticels are present on older stems.

Additional Information

It will grow in nearly any situation. There are occasional problems with cankers, mites, and bacterial blights. Morus alba is very similar to the native red mulberry (Morus rubra), but may be distinguished by the leaves. Its leaves have glossy surfaces whereas the leaves of Morus rubra do not. Morus alba is found throughout the United States, where it invades old fields, urban lots, roadsides, forest edges, and other disturbed areas. It poses an ecological threat by displacing native species, possibly hybridizing with and transmitting a root disease to the native Morus rubra. Morus alba is native to Asia and was introduced in colonial times as a food source for silkworms.

12 Morus alba found

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= Heritage plant = Memorial plant
Number Accession ID Location
12013_00143*AHORTPARK
Heritage Plant
22013_00554*AHORTPARK
3ORIG_3587*ARSC
42013_00644*AHORTPARK
52009_13562*AHORTPARK
62013_00244*AHORTPARK
72013_00643*AHORTPARK
82009_13737*AHORTPARK
92023_00500*AFREH
102020_12739*AHORTPARK
112020_12739*BHORTPARK
122024_00105*AFORS

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