Species profile
White Weeping Mulberry
Morus alba
2,656 on Toronto's streets — 0.39% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 15: yellow, edible berries earlier
Morus alba, known as white mulberry, common mulberry and silkworm mulberry, is a fast-growing, small to medium-sized mulberry tree which grows to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall. It is native to China and is widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. The species is widely cultivated to feed the silkworms employed in the commercial production of silk. It is also notable for the rapid release of its polle
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| High Park-Swansea | 92 |
| Bathurst Manor | 90 |
| Yorkdale-Glen Park | 77 |
| Rosedale-Moore Park | 73 |
| Palmerston-Little Italy | 71 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 71 |
| Roncesvalles | 67 |
| Caledonia-Fairbank | 62 |