Beautiful Day Mulberry is a white-fruited cultivar of Morus alba that brings practical elegance to warm-climate orchards. Unlike darker mulberry varieties, its medium-small sweet white fruits won't stain your hands or clothes, making it refreshingly user-friendly for fresh eating and drying. Hardy in zones 6 through 9, this variety grows quickly to around 30 feet but responds beautifully to hard pruning, adapting to smaller spaces and containers. Beyond fruit, the leaves offer double duty: they dry into a tea substitute or provide exceptional nutrition for homestead animals from rabbits to silkworms.
Full Sun
—
6-9
360in H x ?in W
—
High
Hover over chart points for details
The juice from Beautiful Day's white fruit sidesteps the messy staining problem that plagues darker mulberry varieties, a small detail that transforms how you actually use this tree. The leaves are nutritional powerhouses, packed with protein and valued by homestead keepers for feeding livestock and silkworms, or dried for a black tea alternative. It reaches mature height quickly and responds so well to pruning that you can keep it far smaller than its natural 30-foot frame, giving you real control over garden space.
Beautiful Day's white fruit is enjoyed fresh off the tree, where its sweetness and non-staining juice make it ideal for casual eating and sharing. The berries also dry exceptionally well for snacking, storing, or use in dried fruit mixes. Beyond the fruit itself, the leaves serve dual purposes: they're dried and brewed as a tea alternative, or harvested fresh and dried to feed rabbits, chickens, goats, sheep, and silkworms on homesteads where their high protein content becomes a significant resource.
No timeline data available yet for this variety.
Start seeds indoors in a warm location maintained between 50 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Sow seeds on moist seed-starting medium and keep them consistently moist but not waterlogged during germination. Transplant seedlings under grow lights once they develop their first true leaves, and gradually harden them off over 7 to 10 days before moving them outdoors after the last spring frost.
Transplant seedlings or nursery trees outdoors after all danger of frost has passed and soil has warmed. Space trees at least 15 to 20 feet apart to allow room for their spreading canopy, or plant closer if you plan to keep them pruned smaller. Dig a hole slightly larger than the root ball, backfill with amended soil to match the original planting depth, and water deeply to settle the soil.
Harvest Beautiful Day's white mulberries when they achieve full sweetness and deep color, typically ripening over a period of several weeks during the bloom months of August and October. Pick fruits by hand when they release easily from the branch with a gentle tug, indicating peak ripeness. For drying, select fully ripe berries and spread them on screens in a warm, airy location until completely dehydrated.
Beautiful Day Mulberry responds exceptionally well to hard annual pruning, allowing you to maintain it at any size from a large shrub to a full tree. Prune in late winter or early spring before new growth emerges. Remove any dead, crossing, or diseased branches first, then selectively cut back vigorous growth to encourage branching and a denser canopy. For maximum leaf and fruit production on a smaller footprint, you can cut the entire tree back to a few feet above ground each year, and it will regrow strongly.
Enter your ZIP code to see a personalized growing calendar for this plant.