[NAFEX] Fw: strange mulberry leaf.

Richard L. Wagner rewagner at centurytel.net
Thu Oct 20 14:49:35 EDT 2011


I have never seen a mulberry with a leaf like that but it definitely 
resembles a Ficus afghanistanica I had a few years ago. 

Quoting William McNam :
> Has anyone tried grafting fig onto mulberry?
> Perhaps they are graft compatible?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Dr. Lucky Pittman To: 'North American Fruit Explorers' Sent: 
> Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:50:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strange mulberry leaf. 
>
> Yep.  Saw one just like it recently, growing in a backyard fence that
> borders the parking lot at the high school my daughter attends.  I didn't
> look at leaf/bud morphology, but figured it was M. alba. 
> Considered marking it an collecting a scion to graft next spring, just
> because of the leaf morphology-looks amazingly like the Magnolia/Brunswick
> group of figs. 
>
> Lucky
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Matt Demmon
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:10 AM
> To: nafex list
> Subject: [NAFEX] strange mulberry leaf. 
>
> I was wondering if any of you crazy fruit explorers have seen a mulberry
> with a leaf like this. It looked like a Morus alba, but the sinus lobing is
> way deeper than any I've seen, the lobes are very straight, and there's no
> small teeth at all. I've seen 2 trees in the Ann Arbor area that looked like
> this, both obviously self-seeded, one in a fencerow by a cemetary and one
> behind a dumpster. Both were young and vigorous. I know mulberry leaves
> change significantly with vigor/age, but I've never seen anything like this
> on any of the mulberries I've seen. 
>
> Is it another variety or species?
>
> -matt
> z5 seMI
>
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