White mulberry
Morus alba
HighSecondary
Fast biomassProduction
A fast, generous tree grown for fruit and leaf fodder — it pollards endlessly for mulch and animal feed. Vigorous to the point of weedy, so keep it cropped.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- High
- Lifecycle
- Secondary
- Soil preference
- Loam, Sandy
- Soil pH range
- 5.5 – 7.5
- Min. temperature
- -25°C
- Min. rainfall
- 500 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- Medium
- Frost tolerance
- High
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Irrigation needed
- Medium
How to manage it
Classic fodder and fruit pollard; tolerates repeated hard pollarding for leaf fodder and mulch.
Watch out for
Self-seeds freely and is considered invasive in several regions; fruit stains surfaces. Frost tolerance corrected to High (hardy well below -20°C once established).
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