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Look at the size of this mulberry tree!

This thing has to be ancient it's massive! I just discovered this tree right by my shop! No one eats from it I found out, these things are incredible

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That's awesome..

What does a Mulberry taste like anyway?  Like a blackberry or something?

That is truly a great find... congratulations!

I find them to be less sweet than blackberries and kind of rubbery but good.

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Originally Posted by MyDogMike
That's awesome..

What does a Mulberry taste like anyway?  Like a blackberry or something?

Nothing like a sweet non bitter blackberry, a sweet blackberry is one of my favorite fruits period, not bitter but high brix content, mulberries are a very mild sweet, with slight flavor, they are good, but not blackberry good!

Personally I don't like blackberries as much, but it might be personal as I got stuck in the thorns multiple times one summer. To me mulberries taste like a cross between a blueberry and a peach with the texture of a seedless blackberry but with a little bite. I believe they are from the same family as figs which is why the leaves can look similar.

My wife and I had a an ornamental cherry tree come down in a storm a month ago and I've drooling over what to plan in its place.  The tree that came down acted as kind-of a privacy barrier between the road and my house, so I need something that grows thick and fast.  I was honestly considering either a peach, mulberry, or a Medlar tree, but I'm not real familiar with the fruit (of the Mulberry).

There's a huge mulberry tree across the street from me as well. I've never eaten one until a few weeks ago.

It kind of tastes like a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry to me.

I wear gloves when I pick them to help prevent staining my fingers and everything else I touch. The only competition I have for the ripe berries are flies.

It's probably time to stop by today and get some more berries from it. The bad thing is that its so tall that many of them are unreachable without a ladder.

To me it tastes like a delicious cross of raspberry and strawberry with a jam flavor

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Originally Posted by arachyd
I find them to be less sweet than blackberries and kind of rubbery but good.


There are a few varieties of mulberries.  I have a pakistani mulberry, and it is much sweeter than blackberries.  It's almost cloyingly sweet.  You can pick them before they get entirely black and they are less sweet.

They don't taste like blackberries, though.  They have a unique taste.  I really like them, but they can be a bit too sugary if I eat more than 10.

Two commercially available varieties that are really tasty and productive are Illinois Everbearing and Silk Hope. More sweet-tart when reddish, and succulent and sweet when black. I love them, wild fruit are sometimes really good, the great thing about the two I listed is they fruit in two flushes for a longer season.

I've got a 6 yo mulberry tree in my backyard. It was a "volunteer" the birds gifted me and I find the fruit delish! It's been producing since year 3 and grows very fast with no extra care. They are native to US, so attract lots of birds. I think the fruit tastes like strawberry starburst. Like blackberries in shape, but smaller seeds and no stickers.

My puggle loves them, too.

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Congrats, what a fantastic find! It feels like such a gift to come across a tree like that.

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