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  • From: "" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Morus rubra, Red Mulberry
  • Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:38:05 -0500

Joe,
I can supply scionwood.
I've got two good M.rubra selections - actually, I've never encountered a
M.rubra in fruit that wasn't good, but these two, I think, are better than
the average bear.
One is a local southern KY native, the other is one I selected on a trip home
to AL. Pretty sure the KY selection will work for you up there, but can't
vouch for the winter-hardiness of the AL selection, though if you high-worked
it, it might do just fine.
If you're interested in even more genetic diversity, I can put my hands on no
less than a dozen different M.rubra trees here on the farm and on the way in
to work, with no difficulty.


Around here, M.alba is everywhere in town - any untended fencerow, roadside
ditch, flowerbed, etc. is rife with mulberry seedlings, though callery pears
are making inroads, and may soon surpass M.alba as the predominant non-native
urban/suburban weed tree - boxelder and hackberry still predominate in the
native category). But as you move out toward the city limits, and on out
into the country, M.rubra still reins. I see its unmistakable big, dark
green, sandpapery leaves peeking out from the roadside forest understory,
mostly on the small county roads, and it's scattered here and there
throughout the woods on the farm here in KY, as well as back home in AL.

Lucky





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