Our 66 Mulberry Tree Varieties

We talk about some of the 46 mulberry varieties we have potted up and growing in our hoophouse in order to gather data to plant out a high density orchard. Below is the complete list of 66 mulberry varieties we currently have on our farm (varieties we mention in this video are marked with an asterisk). Questions? Please let us know. We'll do our best to answer!
🌱To see all of our plant propagation products including fig, mulberry, willow, currant, grape, and many more, visit dingdongsgarden.com
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- Growing Mulberries in Pots: • Growing Mulberry Trees...
- 100 Varieties of Willow: • 100 Varieties of Willow
- Our 66 Varieties of Mulberry: • 100 Varieties of Willow
📓Resources you may find useful:
- Mulberry Rooting Success Rates: dingdongsgarden.com/pages/roo...
- Mulberry Fruit Photo Gallery: dingdongsgarden.com/pages/mul...
☀️About our Growing Zone:
Lopez Island is in the Maritime Pacific Northwest Zone 8A . Summertime temperatures rarely exceed 70F with occasional maximums in the 80s. Wintertime temperatures rarely go below 32F with occasional lows in the low 20s. Our farm is on a south facing slope at 220ft of elevation with unobstructed sunshine for the majority of the day.
*Australian
*Beautiful Day
*Big Red
Big White
Black Beauty
*Black Prince
Boysenberry
*Buluklu
Callie's Delight
Contorted
*David Smith
Delight
Dwarf Everbearing
Early Bird
Easter Egg
Exotica
Firm Red
Florida Giant
Four Seasons
*French Syrian
*Galicija
Girardi Dwarf
Grover's Best
Hicks
Hunza Black
Illinois Everbearing
Issai Dwarf
Italian
Jan's Best
*Kip Parker
Kokuso
Lakeland
Lawson Dawson
Lebanese Heart
*Long Red
Madhava
Maple Leaf
Maui
Middleton
Miss Kim
Noir de Spain
Northrop
*Oscar
Pakistan
*Pandora's Box Weeping
Paradise
Persian
River View Russian
*Riviera
Rupp's Romanian
*San Martin
*Shangri La
*Shelli
Sophie's Fave
Sweet Delicious
Tehama
*Thai Dwarf
Tice
*Valdosta
Varaha
Wacissa
Weeping
Wellington
White Persian
Wonder Berry
*World's Best
🌱To see all of our plant propagation products including fig, mulberry, willow, currant, grape, and many more, visit dingdongsgarden.com
🎬Other videos you may like:
- Harvesting Willow: • Harvesting Willow as a...
- Growing Mulberries in Pots: • Growing Mulberry Trees...
- 100 Varieties of Willow: • 100 Varieties of Willow
- Our 66 Varieties of Mulberry: • 100 Varieties of Willow
📓Resources you may find useful:
- Mulberry Rooting Success Rates: dingdongsgarden.com/pages/roo...
☀️About our Growing Zone:
Our Climate on Lopez Island is Zone 8A in the Maritime Pacific Northwest. Summertime temperatures rarely exceed 70F with occasional maximums in the 80s. Wintertime temperatures rarely go below 32F with occasional lows in the low 20s.
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[@charlesbale8376]

Loved the information you shared.

[@dingdongsgarden]

Thanks Charles. Not sure how good I am at it yet but hopefully some people are finding it useful. -Mark

[@Mrs.Windle]

Fascinating 😍

[@RICDirector]

I am STOKED to find another mulberry fiend! Currently have Tehama (female), contorta (female), two completely differing offspring from some Persian fruit I suspect crossed with our ubiquitous white fruitless (sex if any unknown). Did successfully graft one branch of persian to my fruitless, have fruit, yay! And one fairly generic Morus nigra which this year is bent to the ground with luscious fruit. My original plan was to get as many varieties as UCD had, root them, then manage for fodder production for rabbits as a study. The quality of what cuttings I got was sadly very poor and we salvaged only two (Tehama and contorta). i would still love to try this study, if we can manage it... Did I mention Im STOKED, here?? 🥰😝🤯👍😛😛

[@stevenhart9004]

I'm amazed at the number of varieties. Ive been doing extra large cuttings with great success. I'm doing white ones over 1 inch thick & 2 feet tall & Dwarf Black crown cuttings 1.5feet tall with multi 6 inch branches with great success. I'm from Australia & we don't have many varieties but the best ones for flavour are large old heritage weeping mulberries that grow along the creeks on the west side of Brisbane. They are just delicious & extremely heavy fruiting every year regardless of seasonal changes. Last couple of years I've done up to 3 foot cuttings from them.

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. Yes. Thanks for your comment. As we started gathering all the different varieties I was skeptical they were actually different, but now that I am growing them, it's clear that most named varieties are actually unique in some way. As for propagation, I agree, I think there's some truth to the fact that larger cuttings have more stored energy to get them through that phase where the roots and foliage are competing for priority. I've had higher success rates good luck keeping them in darkness until roots have developed. - Mark

[@umass06]

What a great, comprehensive video! Thanks for posting! Which varieties in your experience root the quickest, thus less likely to rot away due to growing error. Thanks!

[@dingdongsgarden]

Thanks. I'm glad it was useful. I think the ones that root the quickest are also the ones that we have the most success with. We keep informal track of what roots well for us on our website. The ones with higher percentage success rate also probably root the quickest... dingdongsgarden.com/pages/rooting-mulberry-success-rates

[@umass06]

Just looked at the rooting success list and it’s great info! Thanks and appreciate all the work you guys are doing and great insights you are sharing on mulberries!

[@YouAreCreators]

It is my intention to have every variety of mulberry on my Ranch... 😏

[@dingdongsgarden]

I wish you the best! We had the same plan until our cold snap last winter but have now re-evaluated our dreams. If it's useful, here's what survived and didn't survive under specific conditions at our place here in zone 8a... kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYnIfX99dpxlobs - Mark

[@paulm965]

Great tour. I've been curious about the French Syrian. I think first saw it on Bass's site but it's never in stock. I'm mostly curious about DMOR9 and Australian Green. Would appreciate hearing about your experience with those if you had a minute to comment. Thank you!

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. We bought two Australian Green a few years back and we put them straight out to the orchard... they didn't make it. Since then, we grow out our trees a little more before putting them in-ground. We don't have any DMOR9. We do have traditional Black Himalayan but they have not fruited for us yet... as the farmer saying goes, 'there's always next year'! Thanks for the support. We're planting out the trees in a high density orchard this winter. Hope to have another round of videos next year.

[@paulm965]

@@dingdongsgarden Thanks. I saw in the video that you had a nursery for the trees before they good in ground. Sounds like a good plan. Looking forward to your winter scion sale.

[@naturalhijean]

Nice project! How is the 7 foot spacing between trees working out?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Thanks! After the first winter of having them in ground at 7ft spacing we decided to double the density. So now they’re at 3.5 ft spacing. Hopefully I can get another orchard video out soon to show where we’re at. What are you growing? -Mark

[@rocket2811]

Hi Mark, do you have the Taiwan long that grows all seasons?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. I wish. No we don't have Taiwan Long. We had a sharp cold spell that did severe damage to our more sensitive mulberries this winter. So I'm not sure Taiwan Long would work here. - Mark

[@Floridafilipinofruitforest]

You sell cuttings?

[@sarahbjj]

I just got some seeds from a neighbor who has a weeping mulberry. Hopefully they do well.

[@dingdongsgarden]

Good luck!

[@leedavis5907]

Well unless it got pollinated by a different variety like white mulberry which is dominate

[@xGatorchomp28x]

Any recommendations for a smaller variety to be grown in a container in Zone 10a ? 😄😄🥰

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. I would suggest Maui, Worlds Best, Thai Dwarf, or something like that. It will quickly become root bound in a pot but if you water and fertilize regularly, it will produce fruit. And be sure to prune it back heavily after it fruits. - Mark

[@chadmw95]

Are Tice and Florida Giant the same variety? If not, how do you tell them apart?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. Great question. They are hard to tell apart. The fruit on Florida Giant seems smaller and the leaves on the Tice seem wider but they may be the same. We keep the name we acquire trees under and don't do any genetic testing but we try to take as many photos and videos of each variety as we can. I'll try to get a video of them for comparison at some point... - Mark

[@geriannroth449]

Which varieties of mulberry would you suggest that would grow & fruit well in the tropical Caribbean whete there's NO chill hours NO snow?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi! I think any of the everbearing types like World's Best, Thai dwarf, or Maui would do fine. Also, there are a bunch of trees that come out of the humid southeast like Tice, Florida Giant, Valdosta, etc that should work. You should check out Jan Doolin's channel. She's in Florida... much closer to the Caribbean than we are! And she has a wide variety of mulberries. www.youtube.com/@jandoolin6675 - Mark

[@geriannroth449]

@@dingdongsgarden ok great thanks again Mark

[@Lvaladez114]

I have a volunteer mulberry tree is there a way I can identify the virility? It is vigorous in growing. I've cut it down when it was young and it would just come back. So I identified it as a mulberry with a plant ap on my phone. It did have a few small fruit on the mature limbs but never ripened before falling off. It is maybe 2 years old now.

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi Lori, unless you can confirm it was planted by someone it is difficult to identify newly discovered mulberry varieties. Volunteer mulberries that grow from seed are frequently different than the parent mulberries they came from. So it may be completely different from known varieties. Fruit drop is something we experience on young trees as well. Perhaps the fruit will develop more with time? Hope this helps. - Mark

[@Lvaladez114]

@@dingdongsgarden Yes it does. Thank you.

[@hamitfusha710]

Hi I’m in zone 6B , I wanted to chance planting a Pakistani black , black mulberry of Spain , & a Shangri la next spring , I got a worlds bes this summer, any thoughts?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. Our only experience is in zone 8a. When we first got Pakistan, Noire de Spain, and Shangri La we planted them directly in our field and they suffered. Now we leave our new trees in a pot for a year and, where possible, under plastic in a hoophouse. When we plant them as larger trees, they seem to survive the winter better. There's some great threads about cold hardiness of different mulberry cultivars over on growingfruit.org. Hope this helps! - Mark

[@hamitfusha710]

@@dingdongsgarden Thanks

[@user-cl9ew4ie4g]

Can i keep my mulin container it whole life what size container would i need if i could thanks

[@dingdongsgarden]

You could. It won’t produce as much and you would have to prune, water, and fertilize regularly, but it will survive. Sorry it took me so long to respond! I sometimes lose track of all the notifications we get. -Mark

[@mikekallas2]

I am looking for a variety that starts white but turns purple as it ripens. it is sweet but it does develops a flavor as it ripens. can you help me find what variety that is?

[@dingdongsgarden]

I'm terrible with judging taste but I do know the lighter the mulberry, the sweeter and less tart. White mulberries are like honey, all sweet, no tart. Easter Egg is a lavender mulberry but my understanding it remains sweet without much tart. Riviera Mulberry is lavender and continues to turn dark if left on the tree. If I remember correctly it had some tart. There's other lavender varieties as well. Even some white varieties if left on the tree will take on the lightest shade of purple... I've seen Tehama do this. I hope this helps. Sorry I couldn't be more definitive. - Mark

[@mikekallas2]

@@dingdongsgarden Thanks Mark. looking through your pictures i also saw that San Martin looks visually like the variety i am looking for. i will order cuttings from these varieties and try them out when you guys start shipping again. Thank you. - Mike

[@arc-xh8hu]

What do you think what is the most productive and sweet mulberry?

[@dingdongsgarden]

I haven't produced large enough quantities to be definitive but I think Illinois Everbearing and Kip Parker consistently taste good. Once our little orchard starts producing a lot, we hope to do taste tests. In terms of production, I think the everbearing types like World's Best and Thai Dwarf spend a lot of energy on making fruit instead of growth. Hope this helps! - Mark

[@nawazansari4570]

Great video. I am a Texan with Pakistani roots. I was wondering if you sell those plants or you just grow them for your personal use. I live in West Texas in zone 7b, to be exact. I want to purchase a couple of authentic Pakistan King Mulberry plants (King red and King white Mulberries) so we can plant them on our land here. Let me know in the comment section if you would be willing to sell them. Thank you!

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi! Thanks! We don't sell trees but we do sell and ship cuttings of Mulberry and other plants. All of our cuttings will go on sale this year in early January. Unfortunately we don't have Pakistan cuttings for sale this year, but when we do, they will be listed here: dingdongsgarden.com/collections/mulberry-cuttings. - Mark

[@nawazansari4570]

@dingdongsgarden Okay, thanks I'll keep checking here.

[@dracodempseyeisenhart3804]

Do you have a variety called morus nigra? Or is that just a way to describe more than one black variety of mulberry?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi! We do. The names of our three Morus nigra are Black Beauty, Noire de Spain, and Persian. They are pretty small, but you can see them in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGrHlYiKjqeHrJY. Morus nigra is one of the three more popular Mulberry species. The other two are Morus rubra and Morus alba. Unfortunately the nigra, rubra, and alba names have nothing to do with fruit color which leads to a lot of confusion. Also, my understanding is that all of the circulating cultivars of Morus nigra might be genetically identical so the three Morus nigra that we have are possibly the same plant. But we maintain the names the way we received them. Hope this all helps... probably way more than you were interested in hearing but it is a confusing topic!

[@dracodempseyeisenhart3804]

Thanks that makes sense,I have heard that morus nigra was best tasting mulberry and a long lived tree so was looking to get only a couple of varieties of mulberry since I already have a bigcollection of fig and pomegranate varieties...also I don't believe I have male mulberry near my area, would I need to have male mulberry to get fruit.

[@RICDirector]

Any fruitless mulberry around wil do...they pollinate like crazy

[@valerie8217]

@@dracodempseyeisenhart3804 mulberry tree does not need male pollination plant. They produce fruit without pollination.

[@dracodempseyeisenhart3804]

@@valerie8217 I have heard differently- that you don't need one because there are so many mulberries trees growing that chances are there will be a male within a couple of miles that what i read dont know if its accurate, I'm probably 30 miles away from a mulberry right now. My fruit did drop the first year without ripening

[@bobslastcoffee7297]

Is there a variety hardy enough for zone 4?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Thanks for reaching out. We don't have any experience with mulberries in colder areas but there's some varieties listed at zone 4 and below on www.growingmulberry.org/. Another good resource is the 'Mulberry Growers' group on Facebook. With over 30,000 members, there's tons of collective knowledge.

[@juliosdiy3206]

I live in zone 4 and thrs tons of purple or black mulberries, i have a bunch in my yard and a white or hybrid one right n between my property line fence.

[@HaDHoang]

What is the best variety to grow in pot?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi! They all seem to do about the same. But like anything in a pot, consistent and sufficient watering, along with fertilizing is crucial. We're hoping to get all of ours in-ground but if I were to grow a mulberry in a pot long term, I would choose an everbearing like World's Best or Issai or Jan's Best because they don't grow as aggressively and would take longer to outgrow a pot.

[@HaDHoang]

Thanks Mark.

[@faramarzmokri9136]

There is a very special variety of mulberry that for what I know it grows only in that country the Persian name is “SHAH TOOT “ which means king of toots or king of mulberries. Anyone knows how to find them here ? They taste sourly sweet and they sweeter as they ripen more is Burgundy/ dark red in color and taste like pomegranate .

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. Can you describe the size? Was it long and cylindrical? There's a mulberry called 'Pakistan Mulberry' here in the U.S. I've heard referred to as Shahtoot before. - Mark

[@Clark4EC]

​@@dingdongsgardeni have grown 4 trees of white Shahtoot brought in dried mulberries. I soaked em in water for a day colled seeds and there i have now 4 6 feet tall now ! I am waiting for cuttings from North Pakistan this year !

[@dingdongsgarden]

@@Clark4EC That's exciting. What zone are you in? We had a couple of White Shahtoot when we first started growing mulberry trees and they didn't make it through the winter. - Mark

[@Clark4EC]

@@dingdongsgarden zone 7

[@reneehime3331]

Hello..how do you turn a male mulberry into a female..thanks,..

[@RICDirector]

Graft

[@juliosdiy3206]

I have three males i will try to graft soon.

[@violethouseworth5943]

I threw a pack of seeds one year around my fence line and now I have mulberry trees everywhere but back in the 1800's, my area was known for the wild blackberries and mulberries>>>>I HAVE the red, white and black on my property>>>going for their cousins the che fruit or chinese mulberry>>>we will see

[@dingdongsgarden]

That's great! Good luck!

[@Coldtropics]

You should take the tree and graft them for better taste

[@Floridafilipinofruitforest]

You sell cuttings?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. We ship cuttings within the U.S. during the dormant season... usually late fall through winter. Here is a link to our cutting page: dingdongsgarden.com/collections/mulberry-cuttings

[@RICDirector]

Whoo hoo! Please also put all possible varieties in the genetic repository at University of California at Davis. Can you send cuttings to CA egally?

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi. Yes. We are a licensed nursery in Washington State. We can ship mulberry cuttings throughout the lower 48 states.

[@wsmaga]

@@dingdongsgardendo you ship to Hawaii. Thank you

[@dingdongsgarden]

Hi @@wsmaga . Sorry, we don't ship to Hawaii. - Mark