Trader mulberry

[Richard]

@smsmith

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@Richard

There are currently a dozen online seller/shippers offering a “Trader Mulberry”.
Most sellers list it as M. nigra but one uses M. nigra x M. alba.

[smsmith]

Huh. Clearly inaccurate. Jim Walla who first propagated and marketed Trader stated it was almost certainly pure alba. The mother tree grows in North Dakota. Zone 4a. South and west of Fargo as I recall.

No way Nigra survives in the wild anywhere in NoDak

[NDTX]

Fruit from my sister’s Trader Mulberry in early July 2026. Sweet, not bland, and not bitter. I was gifted a jar of jelly from her tree.