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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

Do any figs have very narrow twigs? All the ones I've seen have thick
twigs. The buds on this thing look exactly like all the white mulberry
in our area.

I'd also like to point out that this leaf has almost straight sides,
and the petiole joins the leaf at an edge, not inside the leaf margin.

-matt

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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