[NAFEX] strange mulberry leaf.

William McNam billmcnam at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 21 15:48:11 EDT 2011


Do you have Ficus afghanistanica?
Do you know a source?
Has it fruited? 
Can you share any information about the fruit?
It is supposed to be hardier than ficus carica! 
 
Has anyone heard of any interspecific hybrids within this genus (or intergeneric hybrids such as Che(Cudrania ) X fig)? 
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:49:35 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fw:  strange mulberry leaf.


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

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Quoting William McNam <billmcnam at yahoo.com>:
> Has anyone tried
grafting fig onto mulberry?
> Perhaps they are graft compatible?

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> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Dr. Lucky
Pittman <lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu>
> To: 'North American
Fruit Explorers' <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> 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
> 
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>
[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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