Comments on: Blackberries (Mulberries?) & Grapes in situ

By: allan

allan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:32:29 +0000

hello market man, i reside in baguio and there are plenty of blackberry trees around here. but unfortunately the fruits are not populary sold in the market. few years back, i happen to see a boy selling blacberries in the overpass towards the market, and i delightfully bought a kilo of it. my mom combined it with rhubarb to make a jam. and also my siter used it to make muffins replacing the more commone blueberries. i really find them good or even better than the blueberries! now, i wanted to propagate it but i dont know where i can find seedlings that would perhaps produce fruits quickly. can anybody help me. thanks!

By: Blaise

Blaise — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:35:25 +0000

MarketMan, You have waxed poetic again.. I really enjoy reading your posts.. =)

By: erbie

erbie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:50:03 +0000

@corrine,
you can check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry, as mulberry is a genus of 10 to 16 plants. :). hope this helps

By: corrine

corrine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:40:29 +0000

Can somebody please post a photo of the mulberry tree grown in the Phils? I have a tree in my front yard that bears round purple berries that seriously stains our car when they fall. I don’t know if it’s mulberry but it’s a big tree. From the discussions it sounds like a small tree. Thanks!

By: jayjay

jayjay — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:03:24 +0000

my lola had a fruiting mulberry tree in her front yard in iloilo, but i never got to ask about its ‘provenance (lola passed away a few years ago).’ i wonder why it’s not more common, seeing that it does survive and thrive in the tropics. too bad.

By: nonymous

nonymous — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:07:37 +0000

MM’s photo is definitely Mulberry!

By: siopao

siopao — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:09:37 +0000

yup, those do look very much like mulberries. We have a tree at home and I practically grew up munching on those. Mulberry trees are actually very easy to grow in the Philippines. You only need a stick or a branch of the tree and stake it in the ground for it to grow into a fruiting specimen.

It’s always fascinating to see produce usually seen only on supermarket shelves either dried or processed very much alive and growing almost wild in a public place. Reminds me of the almond trees I saw along the road in Israel.

By: j.

j. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:51:52 +0000

In Sacramento/Elk Grove, where my family is based, there are wild berry brambles EVERYWHERE (if there are no new housing developments nearby, which just so happens to be the case)! In the South Bay (SF Bay Area), there are plenty on the hiking trails…it is just amazing to see the berries ripening on the vine

By: openonymous

openonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:57:46 +0000

That is so funny that you wrote about berries and grapes, coz in my yard here in massachusetts, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries grow wild, I mean I never planted it, the birds took care of that. The blackberry plants are thorny, the blueberry shrubs are like small trees and the raspberries are just everywhere,wild grapes grow abundantly too, and the fruit never gets bigger than raisin sized, but the taste is so different than table grapes when one drinks grape soda, that’s what it tastes like.. I planted some blue and green grapes, but we never harvested the fruits, they are for the squirrels and chipmunks that reside in my yard, the rabbits cannot reach the fruits, so they just eat the ones that fall on the ground.About this time of the year, the raspberries and blackberries are usually dried up but the grapes and blueberries should be ready by Fall.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:04:22 +0000

Hi everybody. They certainly COULD be mulberries, particularly as mulberries thrive in that part of the world. But they were huge, more the size of blackberries, more common to North America. At any rate, the photos of the "bush" I found them near don't help, as their leaves don't match either a mulberry tree leaf nor a blackberry bush leaf. So the bush may have been totally unrelated to the fruit. At any rate, I wouldn't be surprised if they were mulberries, which I have never tasted... Here is one of dozens of photos of blackberries. And one of mulberries. I would certainly believe anyone who felt strongly about this. :)