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RE: [nafex] Berry Identification



Sounds like the concensus is that it is a mulberry.  Now, at least from an 
academic stanpoint, is is M.alba, M. rubra, or M.nigra?

Look at the Iowa St. U. Dendrology website for differentiating features:

http://www.iastate.edu/~bot356/index.htm

Around town,  M.alba predominates, being an invasive (alien) 
tree.  However, as I was driving home from 4-H rifle practice yesterday 
afternoon, I took a different route and all along the gravel road, at the 
edge of the woods, were numerous young M.rubra trees - didn't see fruit on 
any of them, but I may have already missed that window of opportunity.

I stopped by a number of big old weeping mulberries, planted in big brick 
planters at the edge of the parking lot of one of the older shopping 
centers in town last weekend and ate my fill of mulberries - my hands were 
purple by the time I got done.
Looking forward to the fruits on my Illinois Everbearing and Wellington 
ripening in the next couple of weeks

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


 

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