>>2370910>They're all some kind of hybrids though. Got one I'm turning into a bush with good tasting fruit. Had a prolific one by my house but with insipid fruit, had to chop it down because it was too close and ripping a hole in my roof.So another quick note on mulberries and why I encourage the planting of native red species so strongly. As I mention elsewhere in the thread almost all of the native red mullberry has been hybridized with the Asian white mulberry. There the white mulberry is prized because they're used for silk production (mulberry is tough as fuck yo) and red mulberry makes tinted silk that's harder to work with.
But if what you want from a mulberry is the fruit then white is the opposite of what you want (for most, tastes vary, I know someone who actually prefers white mulberry) they are sweet but have none of the rich blackberry like flavor to offset the sweetness so they're just insipid. So most wild mulberry you find is some mix, a white mulberry is all white, hybrids will start white then turn more purple as they ripen but still fairly white inside and kinda gross. A native red will never have any white, it will go directly from green to a dark purple. Virtually all mulberry you come across these days is somwhere on that spectrum and it varies a lot from tree to tree.
Also you'll note, the size of mulberry fruit increases as the tree matures. If you plant one you'll get only tiny fruit at first but the bigger the tree gets the bigger the flower clusters it produces get and those are ultimately what turns into the delicious fruit.
