Recumbent, layering black mulberry in the communal back garden. Probably one of the original trees planted in the early 1720s for a silk farm and mulberry plantation. The plantation was sold off in 1724 when the project failed. M alba also planted but none survive. Several mulberry trees of about the same age are in the neighbourhood. There is a second younger, maiden M nigra a few yards to the south and another 20th c tree in the garden of the mansion flats on the west side of Elm Park Gardens

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