The American Mulberry (aka the Red Mulberry) is amazing
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you forgot the most important part. they grown in insane numbers without you lifting a finger. never need to water the tree much. the fruit is beyond plentiful. the only downside is that you need to pick them as they tend to draw rodents and birds.
And if the branches fall on concrete walkway or deck porch that people frequent, you're going to have to power wash your shoes and everything it touches because they stain harder than tattoos.
My grandmother had a Mulberry tree In her front yard next to the road and I made a mistake one day parking my car under that mulberry, the next day my car was literally covered in thousands of mulberry stain bird Feces, I had to spend 4 hours scrubbing my car clean.But I so did love that mulberry tree.
That’s so true the tree almost don’t need any water, I planted white mulberry tree few years ago and forget about it and it grows like crazy on its own 😝
They drop berries everywhere, definitely a good tree to have if it's a good enough distance from your house.
But birds are good 👍🏼
Don’t park your automobiles by a mulberry tree! Birds eat the berries and their waste becomes purple…and stains!
Ummm that’s purple rain
@@cdybft9050Well said!
I love mulberries. There is a mulberry tree in my backyard and it was a major factor in buying our house. I make jelly out of them every year and also brew wine with them. It's delicious wine.
That's cool u got any recipes by any chance?
I love them too but they don't make a good jam, tart berries are better for that, never had Mulberry wine, sounds interesting
Wow never heard of mulberry wine 🤩
That's awesome!🙏🏼
@@shawns0762 The red/purple unripe ones are tart.
Mulberry bark fibers are really long and strong, which is why the bark (from the paper mulberry) has been used for paper, called kozo. Real mulberry kozo is also water resistant compared to more modern wood-based papers.
As a bookbinder I used different types of kozo for repairing pages of older, heavily used books. I also used it for reinforcing spines and making endpages.
Never see these trees anymore. 50 years ago it seemed like almost every yard had one and every kid in the neighborhood had purple hands.
Rural yards still have them, but in the cookie-cutter suburbs people find them to be useless, even despise them... what a sad way to live. People are starting to wake up to the fact that they're eating fillers and pois ons, not food.
You only have to stop mowing your yard and birds will spread them.
That’s exactly how I was growing in my child hood is with purple hands 😝
@@davidgray1515😄 I kept thinking I'd like a couple elder berry trees, the birds brought me some!
I took it as," ask and it shall be given "
🕊
These things are absolutely awesome also they’re are also a huge nuisance especially if planted by the concrete or a road. I love collecting fruit trees, and recently went to take a branch from a local Pakistani Mulbury tree to graft onto my rootstock. The paved road by that tree was CAKED in almost an inch thick layer of mulburies and the whole place was fulll of flies.
I remember climbing the mulberry tree in my grandparents backyard when I was a kid and I would stay up there for hours as I ate the berries. My grandma would turn them into jam, pies, bread, and much more. She would also dry them out for winter snacks.
I have a mulberry tree I my yard and the birds love the berries so much I don't usually get to enjoy them all but I get some
Mulberry also makes excellent bow wood as it is related to the Osage Orange tree.
Thank you
This is information I can actually use.
Cool
Great! I didn't know that. Now one of my mulberry trees is going to donate an appropriate limb.
Bruh they said that in the video
@@thecarnew5334 🤣
Who’s got time for a video
My mulberry tree had literally tens of thousands of delicious berries this year, made jam, froze about ten pounds, and gave away a lot to all my friends and neighbors. And the tender young leaves are one of my tortoises favorite foods,
My red mulberry is 4” diameter and 15 feet tall but have never seen fruits on it. What time of year do they produce ? Does my tree need to be older ?
@@georgiabigfoot you may need to trim it down to a manageable height, they do respond to being trimmed and should produce fruit the next season, mine gets fruit over the winter which ripens in Feb and March
@@bigdogbob845 thanks ! What sort of diameter is your trunk 5 feet off the ground ?
@@georgiabigfoot It is more of a shrub with several trunks no more than 2" diameter which are clustered together, I keep it below 8 ft in height, and it is 6 or 8 years old now.
@@bigdogbob845 ok makes sense this one has 6 trunks the largest being 4” in diameter. It’s underneath a 100 year old pecan and I was about to just cut it down but then learned it was a mulberry . I’ll prune them down to 6 feet
The tree will get massive and the roots are very aggressive. Not so great next to retaining wall or basement - plumbing?
my favourite fruit, as a kid I remember eating them daily by kilos, we had them trees everywhere where I grew up in North Caucasus. The best ones where the white mulberry fruits, absolutely astonishing flavour, taste of summer. In our country house we had around 10 of them trees, during the summer my parents use to preserve some mulberry beverage (kompot) in big jars. It was so easy to collect, you just spread plastic sheets around the tree & then just shake it. Great memories
Shake the tree branches in the spring to dislodge twigs/etc so you get less of them to sort out when you shake the tree later when the fruit is ripe.
The drip edge at the leaf terminus is a naturally clever way for this tree to shed excess water. This helps with minimizing fungal leaf diseases and potential branch breakage due to rainwater making the leaves much heavier than dry.
The Creator knows many things, eh?
I make preserves and pies turnovers and ice cream a wonderful fruit ❤❤❤❤
Silk moths' entire life cycle revolves around the mulberry tree. Don't know where the wife got them, but after feeding the silk worm larvae mulberry leaves from the tree in the backyard, we watched them spin their cocoons out of silk, which can then be unwound.
However, if you want to have continuous silk from the unwinding, you have to pop the silk cocoon into hot (probably boiling) water. Otherwise the life cycle will complete and you will have beautiful white silk moths flying around your house.
I'm living in Brazil.
The season starts from late August, provides many blooms then finishes after may. We had 4 separate harvests 2 extremely abundant, requiring jam making.
Check out the little worms between the small segments on the berry
Protein
those are part of the berry
My neighbor has a tree and never touches them. I absolutely love them and eat all I can. So good.
They are good tress to have if you have the room. You can use them as a dye (as you mentioned). They will stain sidewalks, too. Also, the birds and squirrels are hitting mine in late May. The squirrels have the limbs shaking every morning eating the mulberries.
Thank you very much for your video and discussing in detail the important characteristics of these trees! Truly helpful and very interesting! Best of luck to your channel & all your subscribers!
We spread a huge tarp and shake. We get g'kids to climb & shake. In a good years we'll get 6 gallons in 20 minutes. We make about 20 pints of jam with that. My current stock dates back to 2015.
Lovely video!! I love when people talk about the good Ol’ American Rubra!
Thanks for the info, hope you have a blessed day.
Yes its best froot vitamin & minirals but not popular in public.
I freeze the berries and put them my yogurt. 😊
I love mulberries, they’re my favorite fruit! I think they taste better than raspberries or blackberries plus you don’t have to deal with any thorns! My mom has 2 trees that I love to pick from, and so does my toddler. I need to plant a tree!
As a child we would get bowls of these. We would gently wash them and dry. Then we add milk and dash of sugar. So good.
These used to grow wild in Iowa, where I was a boy. I spent most of a summer climbing around in tall mulberry trees with a friend, snacking and snacking and snacking... Most of them were a deep purple or black, but there was one tree that had strictly white fruit that tasted terrible.
So many different birds eat mulberries. I love watching them. My duck loves them too.
I want some!! I have a hard time growing anything that is supposed to fruit and getting fruit from it here. Early and late frosts kill the flowers. I know I could get fruit from mulberries because the town next door, with the same weather, has them planted in one neighborhood and the residents are always complaining about how messy they are. Perfect for me!! I have five acres and don't care about the "mess". I want the whole thing! Fruit, wood, leaves, shade, everything! I live in Arizona.
Very interesting ! i just watched another video where hybrids are produced that are self pollinating and/or everbearing. I was wondering if the "male" tree you mentioned was also the donor of the three lobed leaf ?
So I just picked some aand rinsed them and soaked them in water and vinegar for about 10 min. What are the tiny tiny tiny bugs that are coming out of them? Not sure if bugs, worms, larvae?
Very helpful! Actually have one on my backyard but unfortunately it's a male one (and we're allergic to pollen)😂
I didn't know they have male and female.
Really interesting to hear about the rot-resistance of mulberry. I wonder how good it would be for decking.
I bought and grew a mulberry tree at my house but the fruit doesn't taste as good as the mulberry tree at my father's house. I wish I would have got some little mulberry trees from his yard before he died. I bought my tree from a local nursery. I might not like the fruit on my tree but the squirrels and birds love it so I'm keeping it for them.
I have a few on my farm. Our county forester came out for some tree farm stuff. Showed him the biggest and oldest tree. He said he believes its over 400 years old the base of the trunk is bigger than 8ft around.
It produces nice fruit. But there a tree about 40 years old. Less than a mile away from it. Its berry is way sweeter and its growing season is different. All but it there fruit gone by the first week in May.
It still has fruit and white berries right now.
I think maybe a different type or hybrid.
There is a good bit of difference between the trees
I have a white mulberry on my property. I open my umbrella upside down and shake. The leaves are highly nutritious- they can treat diabetes, bronchitis and more so look it up. I used frozen mulberry in lieu of blueberries in my blueberry banana bread recipe and it was delicious. For some reason white has more nutrients than red or black. Too bad he stepped on them. They are very messy on the sidewalk or grass but the rain comes along and washes it away. If you haven't tried a mulberry you are missing out.
Can you simply pick the leaves off the tree and eat them or is there a certain way you have to prepare them?
@@smoowear I just pluck the leaves, wash them and steep them in boiling water to make a tea- I assume you can eat the leaves but don't until you research if you can. But drinking the tea is beneficial. I also pick a lot, let them dry and have them all winter long until June/July again.
@@jayebruney7569 thank you!
Friend has a very old and huge tree. No longer produces fruit on the lower limbs, only in the top. But one of the most gorgeous witchy looking trees I've ever seen. Shades his entire house.
Isaiah 5: 20.
Yup we have a glut of them growing in the streets here in Lisbon, I have seen folk picking them! Fun fact, what you said about the nice shade is exactly the problem for car owners here parking under one their cars are caked up with a nice red goop.
I can believe it! Mulberries should never to planted over the roof of a car port. Take video of that for me and I'll mix it into the StoneAgeMan Video on the topic!!!
@@BiophiliaClips It will have to be toward the end of the week, I'm off on set again for another few days!
I can’t believe that at my 40s I’m learning what a “mulberry “ is I recently saw a tree of white mulberry I research it up if those things were edible. Omg with the green light I tried them .They’re so good and so sweet my goodness I love them.
You really should soak those in salt water before eating them to draw out the worms 🐛 they are very tiny and difficult to see
There are benifits we can get if we use the leaves as tea. To have plenty of fruits of it, per month you have to cut the stem.
Mine has never had the trunk trimmed, yet produces lots.
Will the fruit get bigger on older wood? Seems i have a lot of different sizes.
I love Mulberry. I wish I had one. I’m talking to someone about getting one and I don’t know where to get them, but I want one for my yard.
If you have some in your neighborhood ask the home owners if they have any young trees growing where birds have shit the seeds
I have grape vibes and the birds will sit on the end of the rows and crap
A tree grew one year so I transferred it to the yard and it turns out it’s a mulberry
This was 25 years ago or so and it’s pretty big now
Mulberries are the best, i have three trees but only one produces berries, im guessing the other two are male? funny thing is the trees never produced fruit so i cut them down to a small stump, the trees grew back and this year one of them is covered in berries, being that they are regrowing theyre not tall, maybe 10ft? But my kids have fun picking the low bearing fruit. gonna try propagating them this year
Spider eggs ,wash them before you eat them.
If you Pollard your mulberry tree and print it back in the fall before the leaves die and fall then you can strip the leaves off the stems and dry them. They make excellent fertilizer and feed. They’re very high in nitrogen and full of nutrition. They smell, very much like alfalfa dried.
There was one across the street on a vacant lot. I enjoyed those berries many years .Then one day I came home from work and the lot had been completely cleared. A few days later, a for sale sign went up.
Too many people are blind to anything but their green paper god.
Here, a line of tall pines was cut and removed. They were hurting nothing and no other changes were made to the baren lot.
When they get the globe smoothed and paved, beware!, they get even more dangerous when they have nothing to destroy.
I pulled one open and there were these small bugs inside. What do I do?
Thanks for the video! Fun fact; our bodies use OXIDATION to fight cancer, as well as infections. If your diet is too high in anti-oxidants you actually increase your risk for cancer and infections.
the Berry on the tree have lots of worm larva
On them . be sure to wash with vinegar to
Remove the eggs and webs .
People don't seem to know the difference between American & Chinese mulberry. The Chinese ones are the weeds growing in every fence, tree, other plants...
I believe that the leaf you presented was a Sassafras leaf.
"It stays hard" was one of my favorite parts.
The leaves are also edible...and as far as edible tree leaves go it's one of the better tasting ones.
Soooo, what I gathered from this whole video is. If you are in the woods and have no toilet paper. Mulberry tree is the way to go. Easy to identify with the berries and the leaf is soft and paper like.
Good for butterflies, too. They like the rotting ones on the ground.
Oh. I'll stop putting butter out for them. I thought they ate only butter.
Later in the year the berries on my tree ferment and get the birds drunk.
This was the first year i have seen mulberries skip a year of fruiting here in GA. We got down to 6 degrees here which has never happened in my lifetime and I suppose that plus a late spring low 20 frost contributed to that.
Those late frosts are killer on berries, we lost all our blueberries and boysenberries to one last year.
They do taste great but one bit of caution they multiply like crazy.
We put out a tarp like you did to collect all the falling mulberries, then in rained 1.5 inches in 3 hours....let's just say it smells like a wine press now and there are thousands of fruit flies and gnats everywhere. I love the mulberries but, man, I'm actually noticing more negatives than positives right now. Or at least for where we currently have the mulberries in relation to our house. The mulberry tree by our chickens is awesome because that's free food for them.
I grew up climbing these trees and eating its berries
I might have seen it, but never noticed.
My Blessed Mother...God rest Her ...She would get so upset with me and my Brothers. We would have Mulberry fights with the berries. Obviously we had stains on our clothes. Haha..So sorry Mom. You were the best Mom ever. 🙏🙏❤️❤️
My second favorite homemade wine just behind scuppernong...
❤ beautiful video
The red (not quite ripe) mulverrys are tart.
They're excellent in baKing, sauces and syrups.
And wonderful in/as garnishes and ingredients in salads, icecreams, smoothies and yogerts.
Mulberrys grow like weeds in my yard.
I always feel guilty for not eating more of them.
The red, blue, purple and black mulberrys are in various stages of ripeness.
The blue, purple and black are the sweetest.
THEY ARE NOT POISION.
dioecious = two houses. each tree has its own gender. same root -oikos "house" as in economics.
monoecious = one house. male and female flowers on the same tree. Hermaphrodite or perfect flowers are those where each flower has both male and female parts, male and female parts usually don't mature at the same time.
Yellow ladybird love this plant ❤🎉
Can you make a juice from mulberries?
Would you sell cutting or a small tree
Don't know where u are but here in the Midwest they're everywhere take a drive out in the country and u should be able to find them in about any fence row
I cut them down from time to time not as easy to cut sometimes
One commenter said they're related to Osage Orange and make good bows. So one of mine is going to donate a limb soon.
I was out in my yard today last year the fruit didn’t come in but today I noticed I had 3 in my yard
Ours only produces berries every other year.
They have invasive roots just as a warning for anyone looking to plant one.
Birds love them and spread them all over. Their droppings are corrosive to car finish. Berries are delicious. If you don't mind the mess they create annually, they're a great nature-friendly tree to have.
unless you into eating bugs, take them inside and wash in water, soak under the water let the bugs float. do not eat raw
Where is I've been involved with are filled with little white worms you need to put them in a sink of cold water and let the worms come out before you eat them or eat them off the tree and get protein along with the berry
Can you make fruit leather from mulberries
Bumper crop this year so many to have running out of freezer space neighbour made homemade ice cream with mulberries. Delicious.
How old do they have to be before they produce?? Mine is 30 ft. tall and 3 years old and has never produced!!! I'm thinking about cutting it down at this point. What else can I do??
fertilize it
its probably a male
Wait 7 years.
I grew up in Columbus, Ohio and they were all over the city. I now live east of there by 35 miles. I have not seen one of those trees anywhere in years!! Wonder why? Not even in woods.
Make the BEST pancake syrup!
My tree is 3 or 4 years old and still fruits don’t grow. I mean they appear but they get dry and fall . Any tips on what I have to do?
They are most likely male flowers. Usually Red mulberry trees are Dioecious, which means it’s either a male or a female tree but not both. It’s possible for them to be monoecious, which means it can have male and female flowers. Hope this helps.
Wait 7 years.
anyone ever get bugs on their mulberries?
Nope. Not in California.
Last 2 years, I've had these teeny tiny worms inside the fruit. So dissapointing. I've always had such a good crop.
@@hoosierpioneer Could be fruit fly larvae. That's the only kind of insect issue I've seen on my mulberries. The plant, itself, never has pest issues.
@@hoosierpioneer. Soak them in salty water.
The wildlife certainly enjoy them , in season 😮
Love my mulberry trees. I have a giant male one and a smaller weeping mulberry.
Great for wild birds!
Here in Mississippi, my blackberries are X's 1000 of the Mulberries I can reach so I usually don't bother.
Shots fired
And now that I know these things grow on a TREE I am questioning why the nursery rhyme says BUSH if they grow on a tree. If the Tree is young and roughly bush height its not gonna produce berries or am I wrong?
LOL.....Here in Ohio I call them "weed" trees! They are everywhere in the cities and very commonly found near fences where birds drop the seeds in their waste when they are sitting on them...
Those are probably Morus alba, an Eurasian species originally imported to try to raise silkworms. It *is* weedy.
They can be trimmed to be a large tree, or a bushy hedge, and is good firewood..
Acm was about the cousin morus alba this video is about an American plant morus rubra
Just now had some wild mulberrys! Just about the best wild fruit you can eat. Careful looking up while you feed with both hands! You could drown yourself!!!😅😅😅😊
Keep in mind that there are white mulberry trees.
So the fruit stays white and never turn red or black.
The white mulberry is invasive in Michigan (and I assume elsewhere).
If you live in an area that has an unusual proliferation of mulberry trees, & you have a white car, it will soon have permanent splotches of recycled mulberries all over it.
Birds are vindictive that way...
Green mulberry will make you trip your ass off.. your welcome.
Pruning the tree correctly will make it easier to harvest
Nice berries man
Wait those are mulberries, ive been wondering what the fruit i ate off a tree when i was younger called
If you find a mulberry tree beside a lake, and you like to fish
Carp love mulberries
Just use them for bait😁