Red Mulberry – Morus rubra | Edible Healing Tree & Louisiana Wildlife Magnet

The Giving Tree of the Cajun Landscape

Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) is one of the most generous trees you can plant in Louisiana — producing abundant dark red to black berries in late spring that are sweet, nutritious, and beloved by every bird, mammal, and person who finds them. Traiteurs used the bark as a laxative and the leaves in teas for fever and headache. It grows quickly into a broad, shade-giving tree that anchors a food forest or healing garden with deep roots and deep tradition.

• Light: Full sun to part shade
• Evergreen: No
• Maintenance: Low

Fruit for the table, medicine from the bark, shade for the garden. Red Mulberry gives it all.