Silk Hope

Variety of Red mulberry · Morus rubra

Early, slender black mulberry with sweet flavour and good disease tolerance in the humid South.

🇺🇸 USA

Taste & characteristics

juicysweetaromatic

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

Numerous slender, blackberry-like fruits about 3 cm long, deep black, sweet and aromatic, larger than Illinois Everbearing.

Selected near Silk Hope, North Carolina; resistant to popcorn disease and ripens early, reducing spotted wing drosophila damage.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Red mulberry unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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