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what kind of tree or bush is this
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fishlessman
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looks like raspberries but never seen this before.amazing what grows on my tenth acre homestead without me knowing it :laugh: what is it, can you eat it
fukahwee maine
you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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Looks like mulberry to me,especially the berry. I think there are two types. I am used to seeing the rounder leaf type in Michigan, would double check before eating though. Our mulberries are a little watery but good just under ripe. Makes good jelly and pie, wine too I bet.
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Pine tree's correct. It's a mulberry. I have one that started growing a couple years ago. Birds love them and deposit the seeds all around. The berries are edible once ripe, but the birds will have it picked clean long before that.
Pat -
Yes, it does appear to be a mulberry. They pop up everywhere, as birds love the fruit and help to spread the seeds far & wide. Those suckers will stain concrete, fenceboards, patio cushions, and anything else splattered w/'em.
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there is a mulberry around the corner but also has the leaves you describe, might just be because this bush is younger, i see different leaves on young maples that change as the tree gets biggerfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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Looks like a Mulberry to me. I'll do some additional research.
Mike -
Are the leaves all lobed or are they both lobed and round and toothy, might be sassafrass, tear or crush a leaf and see if it smells like root beer sort of, if it does probably sassafrass.
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Michael:
I've pulled out my Baileys Manual of Cultivated Plants. Looks like it might be Morus rubra. Red or American Mulberry. Range...Mass. to Fla, Mich. and Texas.
Mike -
Another vote for mulberry. Younger mulberry leaves are less convoluted than older. As they grow, the form more lobes, which start overlapping. The berries should soon turn purple. Most often, they are very juicy, but not very sweet. They are only at peak sweetness for a few days, then turn bland and pulpy.
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The berries will get dark purple to black, I like them just as they start turning dark- with a little bit of pink/red left, they are tarter and not so watery. YES they stain any thing and everything, feet included lol. When the birds eat them don't park anything near the tree,,, stains that way too. eeeewwww.
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thanks everyone, the leaves threw me, the other mulberries ive seen are round here, none of those cuts. the berry looks rightfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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looks like you can stuff the leaves and egg them, maybe later this summerfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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ive only seen two trees in my area and the leaves were the rounder type, but found this, its definetly a mulberry
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6yn8LbadAQQ/S5xqH80TuWI/AAAAAAAAADI/AeS6ZUWqxgM/s320/moralb_branch01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sthkchenenglish.blogspot.com/2010/03/information-about-silkworms.html&usg=__i3p_0r4nMsXdkYiKZDaSr5dHQe8=&h=300&w=299&sz=15&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=ugQBEIZ7sIaM6M:&tbnh=132&tbnw=119&ei=gEcCTvHSK8e_gQfHyMTwDQ&prev=/search?q=mulberry+leaves+pictures&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=81o&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1366&bih=552&tbm=isch&prmd=ivns&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=743&vpy=220&dur=3761&hovh=225&hovw=224&tx=91&ty=246&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:18,s:0&biw=1366&bih=552fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
I love eating mulberries. It's the uncontrollable urge to poop on car windshields afterwords that bothers me.
Mike
Omaha, NE
I'm ashamed what I did for a Klondike Bar!!
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oh we had a mulberry tree when I was a kid in PA. just do a simple pie crust and roll out pile with the berries tossed with a little sugar and four and cinn dot with about tsp of butter and fold over like a calzone. used to do those about every night for desert when they were getting ripe. or use this crust and pat in to a pie pan and fill with the above.
shortbread pie crust:
into the mixer toss
1/2 c butter and 2 oz cream cheese beat till well mixed add 1 14 c flour, 1 T sugar, 1/4 tsp salt. mix just till it forms large crumbles. dump into a pie pan and flatten with your hands and shape up the sides. this is a wonderful FAST shortbread type pie crust. tender and slightly sweet. great with any tart fruit filling.
fill that with the mulberry mixture and top with stusel topping.
Into a medium bowl, measure out 1/2 cup of flour
and 1/2 cup dark brown sugar,1/2 tsp cinn, stir and add 1/4 c melted butter and mix till fine crumbles
bake till blubbly. -
There's an App for your iPhone or iPad that lets you take a photo of the leaf and it will determine what kind of bush or tree it is.
It's called Leafsnap and it is free from iTunes.
Spring "Don't Wipe With That Leaf" Chicken
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It is without a doubt a mulberry. Enjoy. With enough you can make wine. LOL. Or harvest the berries and collect the seeds and plant them. Then when they grow up you can graft a weeping variety on them at about 5 feet. Then sell them.
by the looks of things you'll only get a few berries. Enjoy them. -
BOWHUNR wrote:I love eating mulberries. It's the uncontrollable urge to poop on car windshields afterwords that bothers me.
Mike
Omaha, NE_____________"The reason I go out with young men is because men my age or older — well, now they’re all dead."
-Cher
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First thought and only thought is mulberry. Just a guess because I am no eggspirt. :ermm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morus_rubra -
Yeah, I got a visual too. :woohoo:
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yep mulberry. Mulberry is my favorite smoking wood. Cut a chunck off and give it a try.(maybe in a couple years when it is bigger)
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