| Description | Weeping Mulberry (Morus alba pendula) is a weeping form of the White Mulberry. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | Trees Deciduous |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | inconspicuous greenish-white, early spring |
| Fruit | white to pink to dark red or purple, small fleshy drupes and very tasty, botanically called a multiple fruit like pineapple |
| Leaves | simple, green and polymorphic (many shapes). deciduous |
| Stems | weeping |
| Dimensions | 6-10 tall, height can depend on the position of the graft union on the scion |
| Maintenance | prune in late fall or winter, with age may get tangled and wild looking, can be pruned hard to gain back a better shape |
| Propagation | grafting, top grafting |
| Native Site | China |
| Cultivar Origin | Nurseryman John Teas, Carthage, Missouri, 1883 |
| Misc Facts | AKA: Weeping White Mulberry, Teas Weeping Mulberry |
| Author's Notes | I drove past a very old plant for many years, must have had 6-8 inch trunk. Owner kept it to about 6 feet tall. Sadly was lost to road improvement. |
| Notes & Reference | #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org), #253-The Tree Book (Micheal Dirr, Keith Warren) |
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