To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] strange mulberry leaf.
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:05:36 -0500
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.