The fast growing mulberry tree can grow as much as 10ft in one year, and as a rule will bear a few berries the first year, some with the richness of sweet cherries. The berries ripen to a brilliant black color, or red, pink, or white and are delectably fragrantly sweet and about two inches long, like a cooling blend and taste of raspberry and strawberry. The mulberry is excellent for fresh eating and for cooking pies. Some mulberries when dead ripe are so soft that just picking them breaks the fragile skin, staining your fingers purple with juice. This means that as a commercial berry available from grocery shelves, forget it, but nevertheless: the mulberries only need to travel as far as your mouth.

This choice mulberry fruit is practically seedless with a crisp, sweet flavor when eaten directly from the tree. Every child in your neighborhood will learn when the berries from this outstanding tree are ripening in early May. Most cultivars of hybrid mulberry trees are well adapted in most areas of the United States.

The dessert quality berries are excellent and honey sweet for picking directly off the tree and contain high concentrations of fruity sugar that makes the berries useful to process for jams, jellies and pies. The mature height of mulberry trees is 30 feet.

New grafted cultivars of mulberry trees are gaining lots of attention from the backyard gardener. Some of the recommended new cultivars of mulberry fruit trees are White Mulberry, ‘Morus alba' ‘Whitey;' Superberry Mulberry, ‘Morus nigra' ‘Superberry;' Black Beauty Mulberry, ‘Morus nigra' ‘Black Beauty' plant patent 4913; Pakistan Mulberry, ‘Morus rubra' ‘Pakistan;' Persian Mulberry, ‘Morus nigra' ‘Shah;' Bachuus Noir Mulberry, ‘Morus nigra' ‘Bachuus Noir;' and the Red Gelato Mulberry, ‘Morus rubrum' ‘Red Gelato.'

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