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Fourth & Gill Tree Map

  • Tree walk
    • Water Oak
    • Hackberry
    • American Elm
    • Chastetree
    • Pin Oak
    • Japanese Flowering Cherry
    • Overcup Oak
    • Black Gum
    • Trident Maple
    • Chestnut Oak
    • Box Elder
    • Yellowwood
    • Silver Maple
    • Catalpa
    • Black Cherry
    • Serviceberry
    • Gingko
    • Kentucky Coffee Tree
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Green Hawthorn
    • Sugar Maple
    • Sawtooth Oak
    • Black Locust
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Sweetbay Magnolia
    • Eastern Redbud
    • Hackberry
    • Water Oak
    • Green Hawthorn
    • Bald Cypress
    • Apple
    • Apple
    • Smoke Tree
    • Japanese Maple
    • Cucumber Tree
    • Leyland Cypress
    • Crepe Myrtle
    • Eastern Hemlock
    • Red Buckeye
    • Flowering Dogwood
    • Peach
    • Butternut
    • Carolina Silverbell
    • Lacebark Elm
    • Southern Crabapple
    • Black Locust
    • Eastern Redbud
    • Black Locust
  • Local champions
    • Pin Oak
    • Dogwood
    • Crape Myrtle
    • Bur Oak
    • Golden Rain Tree
    • English Oak (Columnar)
    • Chestnut Oak
    • Silver Maple
    • Water Oak
    • Fraser Photinia
    • Hackberry
    • Yellowwood
    • American Elm
    • Sugar Maple
    • Box Elder
    • American Beech
    • Black Walnut
    • Sawtooth Oak
    • Saucer Magnolia
    • Pumpkin Ash
    • Green Ash
    • Black Cherry
    • Chastetree
    • Kentucky Coffee Tree
    • Loblolly Pine
    • Willow Oak
    • American Basswood
    • Northern Catalpa
    • Black Locust
    • Japanese Flowering Cherry
    • Overcup Oak
    • White Mulberry
    • American Holly
    • American Sweet Gum
    • Chinese Fir
    • Southern Magnolia
    • Ginkgo
    • Carolina Silverbell
    • White Pine
    • Chinese Chestnut
    • Weeping Cherry
    • Kousa Dogwood
    • River Birch
    • Sycamore
    • Eastern Hemlock
    • Bald Cypress
    • Post Oak
    • Osage Orange
    • Northern Red Oak
    • Red Buckeye
    • Eastern Redbud
    • Pecan
    • Norway Spruce
    • "Thundercloud" Cherry Plum
    • Red Mulberry
    • Japanese Red Maple
    • Red Maple
    • White Oak
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Yellow Buckeye
    • Black Gum
    • Trident Maple
    • Rosebud Cherry
  • Silver medalists
    • Willow Oak
    • White Oak
    • Northern Red Oak
    • Southern Magnolia
    • White Oak
    • Tulip Poplar
    • White Mulberry
    • Willow Oak
    • Pin Oak
    • Ginkgo
    • Slippery Elm
    • Saucer Magnolia
    • Green Ash
    • Post Oak
    • 0
    • Hackberry
    • Siberian Elm
    • Bald Cypress
    • Pecan
    • American Basswood
    • Sawtooth Oak
    • Tulip Poplar
    • Chestnut Oak
    • Box Elder
  • Invasive specimens
    • Mimosa
    • Paulownia
    • Siberian Elm
    • Tree of Heaven
    • Callery Pear
    • White Poplar
    • Variegated Privet
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear
    • Callery Pear

Red Mulberry

Morus rubra

Other Names:
Native to:
Eastern / Central North America
Sidewalk Visibility:
Excellent
Public?
No
Diameter:
Conservation Status
Description:
If there is an epicenter of the Red Mulberry's native range, Knoxville would be very close to it. In fact, the native Cherokee people referred to Knoxville as kuwanda'talun'yi, which translates to "Mulberry Place". Red Mulberry trees can be tricky to distinguish from their non-native cousins. Red Mulberry leaves are larger, thicker, and have a distinctive sandpaper-like texture, whereas White Mulberry leaves are smooth/glossy with fewer serrated teeth on the margin. Both produce similar fruit, but many consider the Red Mulberry to have a more pleasingly complex flavor. Unfortunately, White Mulberries threaten to subsume our native species via hybridization. The majority of mulberry trees in the neighborhood are White (Morus alba). Lumber from these trees is dense and similar to that of Black Locust (in both appearance and decay resistance). It shares these characterisitics with another close cousin: the Osage Orange tree.
Notes:
This location seems to have a cluster of large mature Red Mulberries. Unclear which among them is the largest. Side note: there may be a Red/White hybrid located in the alley directly opposite of where Deery terminates into Lovenia just to the right side of 409 Lovenia.
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