[NAFEX] strange mulberry leaf.

Richard L. Wagner rewagner at centurytel.net
Fri Oct 21 16:21:19 EDT 2011


I do not have it any more. Mine fell victim to a rodent of some sort. I 
got mine from Forest Farm but I see it is not listed in their online 
catalog this season. 

There is a history of Ficus afghanistanica at 
http://www.arthurleej.com/     It includes the names of other nurseries 
that have carried it in the past. 

My specimen had extremely deeply lobed leafs more like the black & 
white photo in the Arthur Lee Jacobson article than like the color 
photos.. 



Quoting William McNam <billmcnam at yahoo.com>:
> 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)? 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Richard L. Wagner <rewagner at centurytel.net>
> To: William McNam <billmcnam at yahoo.com>; North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
> 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. 
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Quoting William McNam <billmcnam at yahoo.com>:
> > Has anyone tried
> grafting fig onto mulberry?
> > Perhaps they are graft compatible?
>
> >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > ----- 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
> >
> > -----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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