Mulberry trees have a few problems though, the fruit does not transport or store well, the fruit also will not ripen once picked, for these reasons you never see them for sale in the shops. Unfortunately for some reason you also don't see things like mulberry pies in shops.
Another problem is the mess and stains from the fruit. White mulberry (Morus alba) often have dark fruit that stain everything. You get stains from dropped fruit and on fingers while eating them, smushing unripe fruit takes away the stain from fingers. More annoyingly birds eat the mulberry fruit and deposit stains on washing etc. Luckily there are a few strains of white mulberries that are white fruited which do not stain.
A few years ago I bought a mulberry tree from Rodney's nursery in Pialligo. It was a white mulberry (Morus alba) and I paid extra for a white fruited one. It had a tag that was the same as the pictures below (which are not my pictures, they were found on gumtree).
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| White fruited white mulberry - picture from gumtree |
