Silk Hope Mulberry Size:Bareroot (2'-3') Pollination: Needs Pollinizer

Pollination: Needs Pollinizer

and yellow with a carmine blush when perfectly ripe

the leaves turn into vivid splashes of sienna

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Tree habit is extremely upright

Silk Hope Mulberry Size:Bareroot (2'-3') Pollination: Needs PollinizerMorus alba x rubra 'Silk Hope' Since mulberry leaves (from the imported M. alba variety only) are the sole food source of the silkworm, some American trees date to the early 1800's, when North Carolina was part of a thriving silk industry which, unfortunately, was soon eclipsed by foreign competition. Silk Hope, a chance wild cross discovered by mulberry breeding legend A. J. Bullard, boasts the historic pedigree of M. alba crossed with our native M.