Black Italia mulberry trees
Morus alba - Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Black Italia is a modern hybrid mulberry with a naturally sweet flavour. The fruits ripen over a long period during the summer They can be eaten before they are fully ripe if you prefer a crisp sweet/sharp flavour, or left to ripen fully, at which point they have a naturally high sugar content.
Despite the name, this is actually a white mulberry, producing relatively large black or red fruits.
Black Italia organic mulberry trees for sale
Half-standard (2 years)tree 38.00€
Very large tree
(5m-6m+ after 10 years)
Bare-root
Collection only - contact us
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We can deliver to most countries in the EU. However our 2-year trees and some pot-grown trees are too big or unsuitable for mail-order and are only available for collection direct from the nursery. Please contact us if you wish to order.Growing and Training
Black Italia flowers in April and the blossom has some resistance to late frosts.
Fruits are produced on this year's growth, so hard pruning is possible if you want to train the tree.
Black Italia characteristics
- Gardening skillAverage
- Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
- Disease resistanceGood
- Picking seasonMid
- Season of use1-3 days
- Food usesEating freshCulinaryDual purpose
- Fruit colourRed / Black
More about mulberry trees
Mulberries are sweet fruits which bruise easily and do not keep. For this reason they are rarely available in shops, and growing your own is a good option.
Most mulberries are relatively slow-growing fruit trees which eventually get quite large. They are easy to grow, and generally unaffected by diseases, and usually self-fertile.
Mulberries come out of dormancy very late in the spring, around the end of May, when most other trees are already in full leaf.
The fruit is borne throughout the canopy of the tree, out of reach from the ground. The usual method of picking is by shaking the branches when the fruit is ripe in July - August. However you may need to net the tree (or some of the branches) as the fruits are popular with birds.
Pruning is not usually necessary. However mulberries generally fruit on this season's growth, so hard-pruning is a good way to control size, or to aid in training the form of the tree.
Being naturally slow-growing most mulberries can be grown in large pots or planters for a decade or more, although trees grown this way may eventually need to be planted in open ground.
Our mulberry trees are either grafted on Morus alba rootstock, or raised directly from cuttings. In either case they will eventually become full-size standard trees.
