Stubbs
Variety of Red mulberry · Morus rubra
Old Southern heirloom with heavy crops of large, long black fruit.
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3🇺🇸 USA 1870
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweet
Profile
- Parentage
- nicht rein Morus rubra (Hybrid)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 4 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, long black fruit, juicy and sweet; very productive.
Notes
From Georgia (around 1870); alongside Hicks a mainstay of southern farmsteads, also grown to feed poultry and hogs.
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