The Wildlife Mulberry tree is one of the first plants to flower in the Spring. Buds are green and somewhat unremarkable until the fruit ripens and changes color. When planted near valuable crops, the mulberry tree serves well as a distraction and more preferred food source for birds and deer. Mulberries are delicious and will quickly stain the fingers and tongue of children eager to harvest the abundant crop.Wildlife Mulberry Trees & Mulberry Plants have a permanent place in wildlife refuges, and they produce tasty berry fruit from Feb. through the Fall months, so that the Wildlife Mulberry Tree often bear many crops of mulberry fruit each year. The original settlers always planted Wildlife Mulberry Trees because of the extremely rapid growth and excellent shade, and the mulberry fruit was eagerly eaten by chickens, turkeys and geese and are loved by deer, quail, grouse, pheasant, turkey and many other non-harvested wildlife members. One hunter actually took a sacred oath, that he shot a deer after it had climbed a mulberry tree to eat the berry fruit. This story appears to lie on the edge of reality, since deer are not generally thought to be capable of such acts as climbing trees.