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Pakistan
Morus macroura — earlier listed as M. alba
The record
- Parentage
- Morus macroura — earlier listed as M. alba
- Origin
- Introduced from Islamabad, Pakistan, through USDA plant introduction, for A. J. Bullard of Mount Olive, North Carolina and Michael McConkey of Edible Landscaping
- Rights
- rights unknown — No patent, certificate, or trademark found in the sources consulted.
- Fruit
- Exceptionally long — commonly reported at 3 to 5 inches — sweet and richly flavoured
- Species
- Now generally treated as Morus macroura, having earlier been sold as M. alba
- Hardiness
- The least hardy of the cultivars in this file; a southern or protected-site tree
Description
The spectacular one: fruit several inches long, which is unlike anything else in the genus a North American grower is likely to meet.
It arrived through a documented channel — a USDA plant introduction, brought in for two named nurserymen — which makes its provenance unusually clear for this file. Its botany was less clear for a while: it circulated as Morus alba before being generally reassigned to M. macroura.
The hardiness is the constraint. This is not a northern tree, and a catalogue photograph of the fruit will tempt people well outside its range. Read the zone before the picture.