The American Mulberry (aka the Red Mulberry) is amazing

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[openskies]

I love mulberries. There is a mulberry tree in my backyard and it was a major factor in buying our house. I make jelly out of them every year and also brew wine with them. It's delicious wine.

[BobRooney]

you forgot the most important part. they grown in insane numbers without you lifting a finger. never need to water the tree much. the fruit is beyond plentiful. the only downside is that you need to pick them as they tend to draw rodents and birds.

[john_-]

Mulberry bark fibers are really long and strong, which is why the bark (from the paper mulberry) has been used for paper, called kozo. Real mulberry kozo is also water resistant compared to more modern wood-based papers.

As a bookbinder I used different types of kozo for repairing pages of older, heavily used books. I also used it for reinforcing spines and making endpages.

[draketwolf]

I remember climbing the mulberry tree in my grandparents backyard when I was a kid and I would stay up there for hours as I ate the berries. My grandma would turn them into jam, pies, bread, and much more. She would also dry them out for winter snacks.

[bigdogbob]

My mulberry tree had literally tens of thousands of delicious berries this year, made jam, froze about ten pounds, and gave away a lot to all my friends and neighbors. And the tender young leaves are one of my tortoises favorite foods,

[alohamishka]

my favourite fruit, as a kid I remember eating them daily by kilos, we had them trees everywhere where I grew up in North Caucasus. The best ones where the white mulberry fruits, absolutely astonishing flavour, taste of summer. In our country house we had around 10 of them trees, during the summer my parents use to preserve some mulberry beverage (kompot) in big jars. It was so easy to collect, you just spread plastic sheets around the tree & then just shake it. Great memories

[calvinsweet]

I have a mulberry tree I my yard and the birds love the berries so much I don't usually get to enjoy them all but I get some

[sonyasphere]

Don’t park your automobiles by a mulberry tree! Birds eat the berries and their waste becomes purple…and stains!

[artherrightus]

Check out the little worms between the small segments on the berry

[cheskydivision]

Never see these trees anymore. 50 years ago it seemed like almost every yard had one and every kid in the neighborhood had purple hands.

[robertkeller]

Shake the tree branches in the spring to dislodge twigs/etc so you get less of them to sort out when you shake the tree later when the fruit is ripe.

[prittmike]

Mulberry also makes excellent bow wood as it is related to the Osage Orange tree.

[englishcoach]

I'm living in Brazil.
The season starts from late August, provides many blooms then finishes after may. We had 4 separate harvests 2 extremely abundant, requiring jam making.

[northerniltree]

The drip edge at the leaf terminus is a naturally clever way for this tree to shed excess water. This helps with minimizing fungal leaf diseases and potential branch breakage due to rainwater making the leaves much heavier than dry.

[outdoorztime]

They are good tress to have if you have the room. You can use them as a dye (as you mentioned). They will stain sidewalks, too. Also, the birds and squirrels are hitting mine in late May. The squirrels have the limbs shaking every morning eating the mulberries.

[tessiedesucatan]

There are benifits we can get if we use the leaves as tea. To have plenty of fruits of it, per month you have to cut the stem.

[victoriayirka]

I love mulberries, they’re my favorite fruit! I think they taste better than raspberries or blackberries plus you don’t have to deal with any thorns! My mom has 2 trees that I love to pick from, and so does my toddler. I need to plant a tree!

[quinntheeskimooutdoors]

I freeze the berries and put them my yogurt. 😊

[rosskstar]

The tree will get massive and the roots are very aggressive. Not so great next to retaining wall or basement - plumbing?

[IsabelRodriguez-nvue]

Thank you very much for your video and discussing in detail the important characteristics of these trees! Truly helpful and very interesting! Best of luck to your channel & all your subscribers!