Unryu

Variety of White mulberry · Morus alba

Ornamental mulberry with dramatically contorted branches and edible fruit.

Also known as: Contorted Mulberry, Contorted White Mulberry

🇯🇵 Japan

Taste & characteristics

mildsweet

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Flowering
Fruit harvest

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Small fruit ripening white to blackish, mild and sweet.

Striking zigzag contorted branches (Unryu = cloud dragon); decorative ornamental tree.

Grown mainly as an ornamental and for cut-branch floristry.

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