Morus nigra

Tree

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Original habitat is obscure.

Family: Moraceae
Height: 10 m / 33 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 5 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 3 of 5
Other Uses: 3 of 5

Native Habitat

Black Mulberry Morus nigra native habitat is Original habitat is obscure.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw, cooked or used in preserves. A delicious slightly acid flavour, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and can be eaten in quantity. The fruit is juicy and refreshing, though it must be used as soon as it is ripe (from mid-August to September) otherwise it will start to rot. The fruit falls from the tree as soon as it is fully ripe. It is best, therefore, to grow the tree in short grass to cushion the fall of the fruit but to still make it possible to find and harvest. The fruit can also be dried and ground into a powder. The fruit is up to 25mm in diameter. White Mulberry (Morus alba) has edible young leaves and shoots eaten cooked but we have found no information for this plant.