| Gelato Red Mulberry Tree | | Red Gelato Mulberry Tree |
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Red Gelato mulberries contain enough sugar to sun dry them to be eaten later during the Winter. Kids love the taste of the berry produced from the Red Mulberry Tree, and will gather around when they are ripe! When tree ripe the Gelato mulberry is delicious, and it produces a fragrance described best as that of grapefruit. The heavy leaf cover on the Gelato Red Mulberry tree hides the berries underneath in the shade from hungry birds, and the Red mulberry tree can withstand temperatures of minus below zero F. Not only do Gelato Red Mulberry trees produce fruit for humans, but birds love this bright red berry, and the birds even build nests in the dense branches. Fat red Gelato mulberries were reported to have been hybridized in Italy from American native mulberry trees, where they flavored Italian ice cream. Red mulberry trees ripen their berries in June, a period in between the early ripening white mulberry trees and the late maturing black mulberry trees. The bright red color the Gelato cultivar begins to develop in June, its ripening period.
