Black mulberry tree

The black mulberry tree ( Morus will nigra L.) is a species of Fruit tree originating in Asia Western (South of the the Caucasus, Arménie, Iran) and pertaining to the family of the Moracée S.

It summer introduced and cultivated in all the Mediterranean basin since the Antiquity for its Fruit S, the Mûre S, which are rather forsaken nowadays.

Description

The black mulberry tree is a Arbre Monoïque with slow growth which can reach 10 to 20 meters in height.

Its null and void sheets are alternate, glabrous or slightly pubescent with the reverse of the sheet. They are generally cordiformes but can be lobed. They measure up to 15 cm length.

The black mulberry tree is rustic and support a climate of the type Zone USDA 5.

Self-fertilizing, it flowers in spring.

It gives edible fruits of approximately 25 mm length, very trying and fragile which become ripe towards mid-August. They must be consumed quickly because they are quickly perishable.

Mr. will nigra L. is dexoploïde (2n=308), the greatest number of Chromosome S among the Phanérogame S.

The black mulberry tree can live up to 120 years. Thereafter, it is not rare that the tree splits in two pennies the weight of the branches charpentières. The tree can survive thus but generally appear rejections at the base of the tree.

Differences between white and black mulberry tree

Although certain sources indicate that the white Mûrier produces white fruits and the black Mûrier of the black fruits, they are false. The black mulberry tree always bears dark or black purple fruits. On the other hand, according to the varieties, the white mulberry tree bears fruits white, yellow, rosy, purple or black.

  • the fruit of the white mulberry tree presents a long Pédoncule (sometimes the length of the fruit) whereas the black mulberry tree does not have so to speak a stalk, or a very short stalk.

  • the fruit of the white mulberry tree is douceâtre before maturity, whereas at the same stage that of the black mulberry tree is very acid. With complete maturity, that of the white mulberry tree is rather insipid and very sweetened, that of the black mulberry tree is sweetened and slightly acidulous.

  • the savor of the fruits of the black mulberry tree likes the near total of the general public. The fruits of the white mulberry tree are estimated generally little in France, but those of the Cultivar S selected for their fruits have a raised gustatory value. They are very appreciated in the countries which cultivate them, with the the Middle East (Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel) in particular.

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