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Quoting from my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, which includes a whole 
chapter on mulberry:

            Mulberry trees are either dioecious or monoecious, and sometimes 
a tree even will change from one sex to another. High temperatures, strong 
light, and long days favor maleness in mulberries, with their opposites, as 
well as high humidity, bringing out female flowers. (What can we 
anthropomorphize from this?) Flowers appear in axillary positions on current 
season’s shoots and on spurs on older wood. Pollination is not usually a 
problem, because mulberries are wind-pollinated, and some plants---the 
cultivars ‘Illinois Everbearing’ and ‘Hicks’, for example---will set fruit 
without any pollination whatsoever.

Lee Reich, PhD
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Books by Lee Reich:
A Northeast Gardener's Year
The Pruning Book
Weedless Gardening
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
Landscaping with Fruit
Grow Fruit Naturally

On Jun 2, 2012, at 6:40 AM, Dr. Chiranjit Parmar wrote:

> I have grown among mulberry trees, Morus alba, M. rubra and a few other 
> species too which were introduced in North India for for feeding the silk 
> worms.  These mainly produce foliage and the fruits, though edible are 
> small 
> and not so tasty.  However, I have not seen a unisexual mulberry tree.
> 
> May be these exist in USA or some other countries as there are no 
> polyembryonic mangos in North India but but I noticed in Liberia, a 
> tropical 
> country, nearly all mango stones gave rise to more than one seedling.
> 
> Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
> www.fruitipedia.com
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Lee Reich
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 3:10 PM
> To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Grafting Mulberries
> 
> Quoting from my book Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, which includes a 
> whole chapter on mulberry:
> 
>            Mulberry trees are either dioecious or monoecious, and sometimes 
> a tree even will change from one sex to another. High temperatures, strong 
> light, and long days favor maleness in mulberries, with their opposites, as 
> well as high humidity, bringing out female flowers. (What can we 
> anthropomorphize from this?) Flowers appear in axillary positions on 
> current 
> season’s shoots and on spurs on older wood. Pollination is not usually a 
> problem, because mulberries are wind-pollinated, and some plants---the 
> cultivars ‘Illinois Everbearing’ and ‘Hicks’, for example---will set fruit 
> without any pollination whatsoever.
> 
> 
> Lee Reich, PhD
> Come visit my farmden at http://leereich.blogspot.com/
> http://leereich.com/
> 
> Books by Lee Reich:
> A Northeast Gardener's Year
> The Pruning Book
> Weedless Gardening
> Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
> Landscaping with Fruit
> Grow Fruit Naturally
> 
> Lee Reich, PhD
> Come visit my farmden at http://leereich.blogspot.com/
> http://leereich.com/
> 
> Books by Lee Reich:
> A Northeast Gardener's Year
> The Pruning Book
> Weedless Gardening
> Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
> Landscaping with Fruit
> Grow Fruit Naturally
> 
> On Jun 1, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Dr. Chiranjit Parmar wrote:
> 
>> I have not heard of "male" and "female" mulberries yet.
>> 
>> So no need for grafting.  Mulberry is one of the easiest plants to root by
>> cuttings.
>> 
>> 
>> Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
>> www.fruitipedia.com
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Geoffrey Tolle
>> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:27 PM
>> To: North American Fruit Explorers
>> Subject: [nafex] Grafting Mulberries
>> 
>> Folks:
>> 
>>     I'm thinking of transplanting a young mulberry to a more useful
>> location. If it survives and is male, then does anyone know if male
>> mulberries can accept female grafts?
>> 
>> 
>>                    Thanks,
>> 
>>                    Geoffrey Tolle
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