This mulberry's trunk runs 4 metres round, unusually thick for a species more often kept small and heavily pruned for its leaves than left to grow into a full tree.
White Mulberry
These trees were planted as machinery. This page maps every white mulberry on the site, 12 so far across 11 cities.
White mulberry leaf is the only thing a silkworm will eat, so every ruler who fancied a silk industry ordered mulberries into the ground, and the trees stayed long after the venture folded. Christian IV tried it in Denmark, and the mulberry at Proviantgarden is the one tree from that royal scheme anyone can still point to. Maria Theresa's push put orchards across Taban in Buda, which is most likely where Budapest's oldest mulberry comes from, whatever the Ottoman legend says. Around Bergamo the leaves fed trays of larvae in farmhouse lofts, and three of those trees still stand in a public garden. Split's, in the courtyard of Hajduk's first ground, was DNA sampled in 2015 and cloned 105 times, once per year of the club. Nine cities so far, and every tree on this page is a leftover from an industry that failed.
Seville
Copenhagen
King Christian IV tried to build a Danish silk industry the way his contemporaries elsewhere in Europe were doing it, by planting mulberry trees to feed silkworms, and this is the one tree from tha...
Brussels
A pair of white mulberries flanks the Passage de Milan gate into Parc d'Egmont, one on each side, thick enough that the region's own tree inventory ranks the pair among the eighth-thickest of their...
Washington DC
This tree fell over in May 2019 and the Park Service refused to remove it.
Budapest
Popular legend says Ottoman occupiers planted this mulberry during their century and a half ruling Buda, which would make it well over 400 years old; the more carefully sourced version, and the one...
It takes two adults with their arms spread to get around this trunk, and nobody knows who planted it.
Verona
A large mulberry anchors what remains of a private estate's tree collection, one of the oldest specimens documented in Parco delle Colombare, a hillside park whose ownership shifted repeatedly befo...
Oxford
White Mulberry is not a tree Britain's climate treats kindly.
Split
In 2015 a team from Zagreb's Faculty of Science took a DNA sample from an ailing mulberry tree in Split and cloned it 105 times, once for every year of HNK Hajduk Split's existence.
Sofia
According to a story that has passed down through Sofia for generations, Vasil Levski, the revolutionary Bulgarians call the Apostle of Freedom, used to tie his horse to a mulberry tree on what is...
Bucharest
According to a story carved onto a plaque in its own church porch, a boy named Manciu once told Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu that the mulberry tree he had just been scolded for climbing would outl...
Bergamo
These three trees were planted as machinery.
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