Morus alba30 × 20' Hardy variety with large dark purplish-black seedless berries up to 2" long. Fruit is very sweet and juicy; similar in size and taste to Illinois Everbearing. Great fresh eating and good for drying. While Illinois has a longer ripening season, Kokuso may be a hardier tree.
Widely thought to be of Korean origin, but may have first been selected in Japan as fodder for silkworm production due to its enormous leaves. Sometimes considered to be a separate species, M. latifolia, which means ‘broad-leaved.’ Precocious fruiting. Z4. Maine Grown. (2-4' bare-root trees)
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Sweet flavorful purple-black 1" blackberry-like fruit is delicious fresh, in sauces, pies, fruit leather or smoothies. What fruit you don’t pick, the birds will. Great tree for viewing a huge variety of birds up close. Plant it next to the chicken pen where it will rain chicken feed into the yard for several weeks, or put down a sheet to collect the fruit as it falls.
Dense round-topped tree is one of the last to leaf out in the spring and one of the first to set fruit. Ripens in mid-July and continues for several weeks into late summer. Fast growing, even in poor soils. Prefers moist well-drained soils but otherwise adaptable. Full sun to partial shade; withstands pollution, drought, wind and salt.
