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Morus Alba

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Morus alba 'Pendula'
Weeping Mulberry
Moraceae
Located on the great lawn along 195, near the top along the slope.

 


Morus alba
( Stribling White Mulberry )
Morus alba is a round topped, densely branched tree which can reach 30 to 50 feet in height. The highly interwoven twiggy branches can give it an untidy appearance.

Morus alba 'Fruitless'
White mulberry
Moraceae Family
Compiled by the Master Gardeners
of the University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension.

Morus alba. White mulberry. China
M. nigra. Black mulberry. W. Asia
M. rubra. Red mulberry. Eastern N. America
MORACEAE (Mulberry family) ...

Morus alba Moraceae
White or Common Mulberry, Silkworm Mulberry, Russian Mulberry MO-rus AL-ba ...

white mulberry Moraceae Morus alba L.   symbol: MOAL

Leaf: Alternate, simple, roughly orbicular in shape, 3 to 6 inches long with a serrate margin, often irregularly lobed, smooth above.

#1138 Morus alba
Common Names: white mulberry
Family: Moraceae (mulberry Family)
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Morus alba
COMMON: Common Mulberry
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, 2 to 7" long, up to 6" wide, dimorphic, dark green, yellow-green to yellow fall color
SIZE: 30 to 50' tall, similar spread
HARDINESS: Zone 4 to 8 ...

Morus Alba
Polymorphic leaves
Morus nigra
Family: Moraceae
Mulberry, Black Mulberry
Origin: Asia
20 ft'
Varieties: Everbearing, Giant, Tice, Pakistani, White. Season: Spring, summer, Everbearing produces throughout the year.

WHITE MULBERRY - Morus alba
WHITE SAPOTE
A Partial Rating of Some White Sapotes. By Jim Neitzel. 1981 #1, pp 20-21
Culture of Rare Fruits in the San Francisco Bay Area. By J. Garrin Fullington. 1974 #4, pp 3-6
Editor's Mailbag. By Clytia M.

The white mulberry (Morus alba) is also grown for its fruits but is considered to have fruit of inferior quality to the black mulberry (M. nigra).
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Teas Weeping Mullberry (Morus alba 'Pendula')
Tecoma stans
Tecomaria capensis
Teddy Bear Cholla (Opuntia bigelovii)
Teddybear Cactus (Opuntia bigelovii)
Tellima grandiflora
Ten-Commandments (Maranta leuconeura massangeana) ...

A similar tree is the weeping white mulberry (Morus alba 'Pendula', Zone 4), with a pleasing umbrella shape that provides young children with a wonderful hiding place. It can grow to about two metres wide.

Three types, Morus rubra; red; Morus nigra, black; and Morus alba, white. Not native and not common but grows well in Bermuda.

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White Mulberry
Latin: Morus alba
As a child I never realized the mulberry fights my brothers and I participated in were made possible by one of the many get-rich-quick schemes that have plagued farmers for centuries.

Morus alba - White Mulberry
Morus australis - Chinese Mulberry
Morus celtidifolia - Mexican Mulberry
Morus insignis - Argentine Mulberry
Morus mesozygia - African Mulberry
Morus microphylla - Texas Mulberry
Morus nigra - Black Mulberry ...

Weeping White Mulberry (Morus alba 'Pendula')
Weeping Higan Cherry (Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula')
Weeping Willow (Salix alba 'Tristis')
Narrow, upright trees: ...

Grown also from heel cuttings taken in spring or fall, or may be layered in summer. Self-fertile. Morus alba, the white mulberry, is the hardier species, zone 5-9; Morus nigra, black mulberry, grows in zone 7-10 ...

The Chinese White Mulberry (Morus alba, Linn.), cultivated in other countries as food for the silkworm, is even more variable in leafage than the Common Mulberry, ...

Maclura pomifera (Osage Orange)
Morus alba (White Mulberry)
Morus australis (Contorted Mulberry)
Morus microphylla (Texas Mulberry, Little-leaf Mulberry)
Morus nigra (Black Mulberry)
Morus rubra (Red Mulberry) ...

white mulberry Morus alba
white passionflower Passiflora subpeltata
white pine Pinus strobus
white poplar Populus alba
white sweet clover; yellow sweet clover Melilotus officinalis
white willow Salix alba
whitehead spikesedge Kyllinga nemoralis ...

Morera - Morus alba
Morera de las Indias - Morus indica
Moro de centeno - Claviceps purpurea
Morrenia - Morrenia brachystephana
Morrionera - Viburnum lantana
Morros de lobo - Antirrhinum majus
Morsana - Zygophyllum fabago
Moscón - Acer campestre ...

See also: Morus, Mulberry, Green, White mulberry, May