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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strange mulberry leaf.
  • Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:35:54 -0500

Was looking for a leaf pic of the figs I have. I don't see them on
Figs4Fun but the following is pretty similar to the one I have except
the tips don't flare out so much.

http://figs4fun.com/fpix/FP945-79.jpg

~mIEKAL


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:
> They are not like any figs I've seen. Same exact twig width as
> mulberry, same buds, same bark color on young stems at least. I've
> only seen two young plants. Figs have much thicker branches and don't
> have the slight zig-zag that mulberries seem to.
>
> No fruit unfortnately.
>
> -matt
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a couple different fig varieties that have very similar leaves.
>>
>> ~mIEKAL
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.




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