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["Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

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@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Matt Demmon
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:10 AM
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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
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