We used to live in this house and we enjoyed the beauty of this tree during the summer. We were told by old timers that it came from settlers and its origins were from China. It doesn't have the large lobed leaf. There are other Mulberry trees on the north property line and the birds loved the berries every year. Wonder if they are still there? Hope so, since it sounds like Red Mulberry and not White (invasive type). If you check it out, please let me know what you find!

I have found more than 70 of these trees on the bluffs along the Mississippi south of the Root River extending south into Iowa. There is a healthy population of pure Morus rubra. Welby Smith and I have collected several herbarium specimens from these populations. I am still surveying for more sites and have successfully found new locations on each of my last 4 trips.

I just discovered a red mulberry on the treeline between my neighbor's lot and mine. It is growing into a large arborvitae.

Just bought a house with lots of mature trees. Trying to identify them but not sure about this one. Have two or three scattered about the property.

As we work to eradicate buckthorn in woods on our lot, we want to be careful not to pull the "good" trees. We enjoy abundant fruit from several mature mulberry trees, but are unsure as to whether they are white or red.

Jennifer, the leaves between the two species are different and should tell you which you have, but they are most likely the non-native white. You might solicit UM Extension/Master Gardeners for further assistance.

Just moved to our grandmas farm and there is either a mature white mulberry or red mulberry tree on the property. The leaves are not lobed. Who can I have check this out?

Susan, check with your local county extension service, Master Gardener, or other such agency. In any case, it would be very unusual for a naturally occurring red mulberry to be as far north as Isanti County.

I am sure now I have a Red Mulberry Tree in my yard. Well actually I have 3 mature red mulberry trees. One does not fruit. I also have quite a few seedlings in my yard thanks to the Orioles and Robins that adore the fruit. I ordered a bare root red mulberry tree from a mail order nursery. What I got was a tree with orange bark instead of the pale bark my young seedlings show. The bark is definitely orangish red brown. My seedlings bark is pale and whitish compared to the tree I received. Also the leaves of the supposedly red mulberry tree are shiny and lobed. My mature trees are not shiny or lobed. They are also rough feeling. It took me a lot of time comparing the two mulberry trees to figure out the nursery sent me a white mulberry instead of the red one I ordered. I will gladly send pictures if anyone would like to look at them. The bark is so clearly different from each other.

I have confirmed an old tree of this on my property which is 2.6 acres in st. Paul. We have been eating these for a decade, but i just checked the leaf which is distinctly the red mulberry.

We have one Mulberry tree in our backyard. We just built a house in the back of our property in the woods and discovered it. I only see female flowers. I have not see any fruit. Do we need the male tree for fruit?

We have two red mulberry trees. I looked at the leaf differences you have posted to tell it was a red mulberry. I live in Vadnais Heights. My daughter lives in Minnetonka and has a mulberry tree but I do not know if it is a white one or red one. I will wait till it has leaves and report my findings and how many trees.

The last photo you have for fruit is actually White Mulberry, Look at the leaves you will see. Also Red Mulberry fruit usually hang in singles not clusters. At least according to this PDF below. https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/FNR/FNR_237.pdf Also how do they taste? Better/Worse than the Morus Alba or different?

Philip, the fruit image came from Wikimedia, which only goes to show you get what you pay for. ;) We have not seen Morus rubra in fruit ourselves.

Thank you, just went to wikipedia and saw it for myself. We all make mistakes and thank you for being truthful. I also have never seen morus rubra fruit, only a large lone surviving tree by the barest of means. Has roughly about 30 leaves, is split in half with the other half being dead and all the other ones around my area are dead too. Could this be the result of lots white mulberries around? How do you get White Mulberry and red mulberry to grow next to each other without the white killing the red? Only way I see it being possible if the red is a hybrid but I am not sure.

I have a small plant with what looks like a mulberry on top. Spikey looking leaves. Almst maple like.

I have recently discovered three of these trees while walking my dog in the neighborhood. I couldn't believe my eyes a raspberry or blackberry like fruit growing on a tree? My curiosity got the best of me and had to look it up. I soon discovered it's a mulberry tree, not sure if they are of the red or white or a hybrid. The fruit sure is delicious and the hornets thought so too!

There is a large, RED mulberry tree that overhangs into the back lot of the Goodyear service center in Bloomington, on Bush Lake Road and Old Shakopee road. While getting my tires replaced I walked my dog to the back area and lo-and-behold, there it was, big and beautiful, with fat, juicy mulberries falling to the ground. I picked from the low hanging branches and ate what I could in 20 minutes. Definitely a RED mulberry. What a treat.

I have been reading your posts about the Red Mulberry tree and plan on ordering one from Prairie Moon in the early spring. Should I order more than one?

I have a few mature trees. The underside of the leaves are slightly gritty. The property is part of the St. Croix River Valley ridge. Very undisturbed.

I tried and tried to yank this tree up when it first came up. Not knowing what it was. Now this tree is 16 years old and is a huge tree. Exciting to find a rare native rubra species. And yes it definitely is growing in the Mississippi river bed region. The fruit is very tasty.

I have them on my farm. i have picturers of fruit, leaves and bark.

Does anyone know of a seller of mulberry trees in MN? I've taken some cuttings today from some local trees but am not sure of the species. More to the point, I'm not optimistic about my first effort to propagate a tree from a cutting.

Tom, cuttings from local trees in St Paul are most likely white mulberry, not the native red mulberry. Ask native plant nurseries if they know who might sell it.

I have two of these red mulberry trees on my property. One of them just recently discover on the edge of our wooded area, with fully ripe mulberries all over. A few days later I returned to harvest more, and birds had picked every last ripe one. What a surprise and joy it was to find this tree on my property.

We seem to have some red, some white, and maybe some hybrids, but at least one 25-30 foot red between houses.

Emily, chances are yours are all white mulberry but you can check the hairs on the back of the leaves to be more certain. White mulberry is hairy only on veins, red is also hairy across the surface.

There is a shrub in the woods behind my office building that an app identified as red mulberry with a 94% degree of certainty (quite high! often it is correct on much lower certainties). However, I see here that my leaf does not match this at all- it is lobed, and smooth. It resembles the leaves identified halfway down the wikipedia page for red mulberry as a young tree; could this be the case? You have nothing here about younger plants, and I would trust your knowledge over wikipedia or an app whose data could be influenced by other incorrect IDs.

Del, I would say your app is mistaken and what you have is Morus alba. I can't vouch for the photo on Wikipedia, but I suspect it's a mis-ID.

This tree has been growing for a few years. Thought when first starting due to leaf look some type of oak. But this year fruit has formed and definitely a red mulberry. Internet says this is a rare mn tree. If so should I contact the DNR? It is growing along a pond in my back yard next to a spruce.

P hudak, don't believe everything the internet tells you. Mis-IDs are common and chances are it's Morus alba. Besides the leaf shape, check the leaf hairs on the underside. M. alba will be hairy only along the veins where M. rubra is also hairy on the surface.