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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] mulberry
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:00:09 -0500

At 06:27 PM 06/14/2001 +0000, Del wrote:
>I have purchesed a 'siberian mulberry' and a 'northern mulberry' hoping to
>get something to grow and fruit here (had a black mulberry back
>home..great pies.)

I suspect that both of these are probably seedling M.alba selections, but
don't know for sure.
Bill MacKently offers a tissue-cultured M.alba selection, "Northrop" from
St.Lawrence Nurseries(http://www.sln.potsdam.ny.us) that's supposed to have
survived -50F.

I've seen a bit of confusion on classification of the various named
mulberry selections, with many of the 'better' ones classified as
M.rubraXM.alba hybrids. Wellington, selected at Geneva, NY, is supposed to
be a very good one, and I've seen it classified both as M.nigra and
M.rubraXalba. Mine hasn't fruited yet - hope to get a few berries off of
it this year. Has experienced some pretty significant winter-kill here in
southern KY, so I have some doubt that it'd work well in MN...


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY




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