🌿 10 Cool Facts About the Russian Mulberry Tree 🇷🇺 #tnnursery #mulberrytree #fruit #fruittrees

Hey guys, it's Bailey with TN Nursery. I wanted to show y'all our Russian Mulberry tree. Uh, these trees are very, very cold hardy. They can take temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero. They grow really fast, about 2 feet a year, making it a great quick shade tree. Uh, the young leaves can be cooked or dried into teas, sometimes used in the animal feed. Uh, their drought tolerance, once you start established and thrives on little water. It's a great tree for a dry climate. It produces sweet blackberry-like fruits. It's beloved by birds and people. It attracts bees and butterflies in early spring with its little flowers it produces. It's extremely disease resistant and low maintenance. The mulberry leaves is the primary food source for silkworms. That's why they was brought over here in America. They was brought over here in the late 1700s. Uh, it tolerates poor soil and improves the soil with its leaf litter. It's a wind barrier, uh, thanks to its dense branching habitat, uh habitat. It's a great food for wildlife. It feeds squirrels and birds and any kind of small mammal. The berries are sweet and juicy, high in antioxidants and vitamin C. We like to make them into jam around here. No, there's no need for a second tree to get fruit. It is like the male and the female tree. They can live from, uh, 70 to 100 years under really good conditions.