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["Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>]

Luck,
Do you ever run across Morus rubra seedlings, or is it mainly M.alba
that spreads via seeds?
-Mark Lee, Seattle z8a

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:38 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Morus rubra, Red Mulberry

Joe,
I can supply scionwood.
I've got two good M.rubra selections - actually, I've never encountered
a M.rubra in fruit that wasn't good, but these two, I think, are better
than the average bear.  
One is a local southern KY native, the other is one I selected on a trip
home to AL.  Pretty sure the KY selection will work for you up there,
but can't vouch for the winter-hardiness of the AL selection, though if
you high-worked it, it might do just fine.
If you're interested in even more genetic diversity, I can put my hands
on no less than a dozen different M.rubra trees here on the farm and on
the way in to work, with no difficulty.


Around here, M.alba is everywhere in town - any untended fencerow,
roadside ditch, flowerbed, etc. is rife with mulberry seedlings, though
callery pears are making inroads, and may soon surpass M.alba as the
predominant non-native urban/suburban weed tree - boxelder and hackberry
still predominate in the native category).  But as you move out toward
the city limits, and on out into the country, M.rubra still reins.  I
see its unmistakable big, dark green, sandpapery leaves peeking out from
the roadside forest understory, mostly on the small county roads, and
it's scattered here and there throughout the woods on the farm here in
KY, as well as back home in AL.

Lucky

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