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["Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>]

Please remember that Both Morus alba, white mulberry and Morus rubra, red 
mulberry both can have white, red or black fruits. If I remember correctly 
Morus nigra black mulberry only has fruits which are black when ripe.  Plus 
there are hybrids and other species with the same range of fruit colors.  If 
we care about the species then it has to be keyed out, it's not that easy an 
ID. Fruit color alone won't do it.  I got all excited about black mulberries 
surviving near me and then realized that the person was using fruit color as 
an ID so it was probably not Morus nigra, but some sort of mulberry with 
black fruit.

Martha Davis

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