Black mulberry
Morus nigra L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- —
Moraceae
Also called Persian mulberry, Black Mulberry
Formerly Morus cretica, Morus laciniata, Morus petiolaris, Morus siciliana
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & SW. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 12 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 8–12 m; Wikipedia 12–12 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- morera negra asiática
- Portuguese
- amoreira-preta
- German
- Schwarze Maulbeere
- Czech
- morušovník černý
- Italian
- gelso
- Japanese
- クロミグワ
- French
- mûrier noir
- Dutch
- zwarte moerbei
- Russian
- Шелковица чёрная, Шелковица черная
- Finnish
- mustamulperi
- Arabic
- توت أسود, توت شامي
- Slovak
- moruša čierna
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Morus nigra (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.