Identify tree

Chris8938

my wife loves the leaves of this tree and thinks I will dig up the tree when we move later this summer.  I am really interested in identifying the tree so I can just get a new one planted at the new place.  I think it is an oak of some type, but not really certain which one. Thanks for looking.

fishlessman

looks like mulberry

HelenGrace203

Ditto -- Mulberry

kl8ton

Red Mulberry?

http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Edible_Plants_Ramer_Silver_Weizmann/Pages/spp_page_Mulberry.html

Looks like you can eat that plant before you move out!

Skiddymarker

kl8ton said:

Red Mulberry?

http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Edible_Plants_Ramer_Silver_Weizmann/Pages/spp_page_Mulberry.html

Reading the Fun Facts from the link provided by @kl8ton - can we conclude why SWMBO does not want to leave her tree?

kl8ton

@Skiddymarker

Yes, they misspelled WARNING.  It should have been BONUS:

gdenby

Yup, mulberry. And if you plant 1, soon you will likely have dozens, and they are almost impossible to kill

kl8ton

I had always heard they are undesirable.  Like a weed with bark.

I can't remember why, but my tree guy told me to get rid of mine.  He cited some reasoning.  I can't remember now.

 

Legume

I'm used to fruitless mulberry trees in the west - real shallow root systems, notorious for f'n with plumbing and concrete

fishlessman

i like them, like the fruit, the purple road, my purple driveway, the purple bird shits. after reading that article am i really seeing purple

Fred19Flintstone

My property is lousy with them.  Weed with bark is a good description.

Chris8938

Thanks for all the help guys!!  I let the boss know about the weed with bark.  Hopefully that scares her off from this god forsaken idea.

RRP

Junk tree!!! I grew up with one and it is a mess as others have already told you!

gdenby

Just to cut the mulberry some slack, it makes a good smoking wood. I carve walking sticks as a hobby, and the abandoned lots around me give me a steady supply of fast growing, straight young branches. Its decent for smallish item wood working. Just nasty as a yard tree.

Focker

gdenby said:

Just to cut the mulberry some slack, it makes a good smoking wood. I carve walking sticks as a hobby, and the abandoned lots around me give me a steady supply of fast growing, straight young branches. Its decent for smallish item wood working. Just nasty as a yard tree.

Yes sir, a great mild and sweet wood, smells good, similar to cotton candy when it burns.  

Recently staged some black cherry and mulberry for processing.  Growing like a weed is a good thing. This new fangled KBQ project is a ton of work. And I haven't even split and cut it yet.

Awesome with pork, but then again, what isn't.

U_tarded

Most people don't like them because they have a shallow root system that has been know around here to mess with irrigation and sewer plumbing.  They do grow fast and have fruitless varieties as well. 

bboulier

Mulberry.  Makes good firewood.  Other than that it's pest.  The berries drop on the ground and make the area around the tree unusable for part of the summer.  Birds love to eat the berries and then drop purple presents on your siding and car.  Cut it down while small.  They grow very fast.