Mulberries are harvested in April-June each year when the fruit is ripe, and impurities are removed, dried in the sun or slightly steamed and dried for consumption, and can also be used to make wine. The specific ripening time is not the same everywhere, the south a little earlier, the north a little later. Mature mulberry texture oily, sweet and sour taste, to a large, thick flesh, color purple-red, sugar enough for the best.
Mulberry tree height is generally 2 ~ 15m, petiole length of about 1.0 ~ 2.5cm, leaf blade is broadly ovate or ovate. Mulberry trees are dioecious, their flowers are unisexual, and the mulberry fruit is a drupe, a kind of polyanthus, with dense, oblong or ovoid fruits.
The mulberry fruit is green when it is first ripe, and its length is about 1.0 to 2.5cm, and it is red or black-purple when it is ripe. Mulberry trees are widely distributed in the north and south of China.