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Black mulberry · White mulberry
📍 6401 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
🗓 Season: June · July · August · May
🔍 When is it ripe?
Black mulberry: Deep purple-black when ripe; intensely flavoured and juicy. Spread a tarp and shake the tree — ripe fruits fall immediately. Stains everything permanently — wear old clothes. Do not pick unripe red berries (mildly hallucinogenic).
White mulberry: White to pale pink or lavender when ripe. Very sweet and mild. Falls from the tree when ripe — spread a sheet below and shake. Extremely delicate; eat within hours. Ripe berries stain less than black mulberry but deteriorate even faster.
Unkept trees with lots of berries on shoots (easier to pick that way) that overhang and poke through a chain link fence and can be picked from sidewalk. Mostly black mulberries line the block, with one tree of white ones.
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