Mulberries: Morus sp. year when we were kids, my siblings and I
picked mulberries out of a large tree in a nearby park. We liked
the fruit, but not as well as the blackberries and raspberries
that ripened at the same time, and our one attempt at a mulberry
pie was pretty awful. So I put mulberries out of my mind...until
I started reading that mulberries can provide all of the food
you need for a pig or flock of chickens for several months in
the summer. Then, of course, my ears perked up. are the
different kinds of mulberries? There are three species of
mulberries that can be found growing in the United States. The
White Mulberry (Morus alba) is native to Asia, but was widely
introduced in the nineteenth century as fodder for a silk
industry that never panned out. White Mulberries are cold hardy,
but have rather insipid fruits. Red Mulberries (M. rubra) are a
U.S. native with tastier fruits than White Mulberries. Finally,
Black Mulberries (M. nigra) are members of another Asian
species, this one selected prim