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[William McNam <billmcnam@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)? 
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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.

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Quoting William McNam <billmcnam@yahoo.com>:
> Has anyone tried
grafting fig onto mulberry?
> Perhaps they are graft compatible?

>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Dr. Lucky
Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> To: 'North American
Fruit Explorers' <nafex@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
> 
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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
> z5
seMI
>
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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@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! 
> Â 
> 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@centurytel.net>
> To: William McNam <billmcnam@yahoo.com>; North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@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@yahoo.com>:
> > Has anyone tried
> grafting fig onto mulberry?
> > Perhaps they are graft compatible?
>
> >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > ----- Forwarded Message -----
> > From: Dr. Lucky
> Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> > To: 'North American
> Fruit Explorers' <nafex@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@lists.ibiblio.org
> >
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@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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