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I'm going with Red Mulberry. I read that RM is listed as an endangered species in Canada, and is also threatened in the United States. This tree is barely 4 inches dbh, but I think I've seen larger specimens on our place. Like with the Swamp Tupelo I don't see any fruit developing. This tree is under a fairly thick canopy so I guess that would limit the fruit. If this is a Mulberry I would like to release it and try to get some fruit for the birds (and me). ;)
I'd agree with you
around here there's no shortage of them, almost like weeds once they establish
Do ya get berries on that type. Mulberries are soooo sweet. If you can pick enough of them and keep from eatin them long enough you can make an awsome pie!
The info I found said this variety has sweet berries.
I grew up in Northern Illinois and my friend's family had a Mulberry on their property. I don't know what type of MB it was but I spent hours at a time in that tree with my buddy, eating berries until we were half purple. Mulberries are my favorite berry I think.
Is that a sassafrass leaf in the first pic?
By the looks of your fingertips it seems you were sampling some berries. :)
No metalspinner, that's one of the leaves on this tree, but there is some sassafras here.
My fingers are stained from marking leave trees with blue paint. I diluted tinted latex primer with water and I'm spraying it with a pump sprayer. I was unclogging it by hand until I realized I could just whip the wand on a tree... :o
Yup, Red mulberry, Morus rubra. Leaves can be very similar to sassafras, the easiest way to tell is to crush the leaf and smell it.
Sounds like you have a male tree, no berries. I wouldn't consider mulberry threatened in the US, it's not hard finding them in the south at least.
I'm going to have to get my Mulberry boy a girlfriend! :)
I read that Red Mulberry is on the endangered list in Canada and that it's threatened in some areas of the US.
Only a few of the lower leaves on this tree have any lobes at all.
All the mulberries are gone about the end of May, so no way to tell now if it is a boy or a girl. I did a thread on mulberries earlier this late spring/early summer.
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=25639.0
If the leaf margins were not toothed, the only other option would be 'sass'. ;D
How would you propogate Mulberry? We never get sprouts so do you need a male female for the trees to propagate like some other trees. We get plenty of berries so it can't be just the berry.
Tim
If your getting berries, then there must be male flowers to, need pollen. ;) I think mulberry can be one sex or both or neither and never flower. Fun eh? ;)
Yes, a mulberry can change sex in mid-stride. It is also written that it takes several years (in the neighborhood of 8 ) before a mulberry will produce berries. Propagation is usually done by rooting cuttings from the mature tree. I think this was covered fairly extensively in a recent thread. :)
I get mulberries sprouting from the seeds/bird droppings.
Have them popping up all over the place.
Only thing worse is the boxelder and a maple. ::)
I might cut down every tree that isn't a Mulberry. :)
Furby,
That's interesting. We have 3 mulberry trees that are mature. Too mature and have serious defects from storms and age. We never get sprouts from seeds. I'll do a search on the thread for propogating from cuttings (thansk Tom).
Tim
Well if the sprouts aren't from seeds, then I have no clue as to how they are sprouting, so I simply assume they are from seed. :)
That and the amount of colored droppings around here. ::)
Ever see what those deep colored droppings do to fresh pine window casing ??? >:( >:( >:(
I know what they do to a lot of stuff. How about kids running through a minefield of berries and then comming into the house :o
Tim
I worked as a chef for many years and I always wished for a source of Mulberries. I guess they're just too fragile to handle/ship.
DanG Tim, ya got me there! :o
Shipping ???, they never make it from the tree to the house ;D Either me or my oldest usually scarf them down before we hit the front door ;)
Tim