BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
Is this Red Mulberry?
Is this Red Mulberry?
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Yes it is.
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
Bringing this thread back up to ask if I took cuttings off this tree, and planted them, would it work? I'm thinking of using them as a screen seeing how dense the top is. I can always fill in beneath as they grow taller.
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
I can either take some cuttings in the next couple of weeks or wait until late summer, early fall. I'm not as worried about fruit as I am about growth rate for screening.
Bill Loser
5 year old buck +
One of the best online articles I've seen for helping differentiate Red mulberry (Morus rubra) from White mulberry (M. alba) here:
Bud morphology is really helpful during dormant season - M.rubra buds are larger, darker, elevated from the stem somewhat, and will be located a bit off-center on the leaf petiole scar . M.alba - and most hybrids I've looked at (but some may lean more toward the M.rubra parent) - have smaller buds, centered on the leaf petiole scar, and closely appressed to the stem.
I have a friend who is heading up a SARE grant program to identify pure Morus rubra trees for conservation and potentially being incorporated into a breeding orchard to preserve valuable genetics. Have a look here, and consider contributing if you have access to productive pure M. rubra trees :
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Bud morphology is really helpful during dormant season - M.rubra buds are larger, darker, elevated from the stem somewhat, and will be located a bit off-center on the leaf petiole scar . M.alba - and most hybrids I've looked at (but some may lean more toward the M.rubra parent) - have smaller buds, centered on the leaf petiole scar, and closely appressed to the stem.
I have a friend who is heading up a SARE grant program to identify pure Morus rubra trees for conservation and potentially being incorporated into a breeding orchard to preserve valuable genetics. Have a look here, and consider contributing if you have access to productive pure M. rubra trees :
Contest Instructions
Contest Rules and Instructions(contest ends July 15th, 20223 Thank you for helping us with this USDA SARE-funded project to identify, preserve, and make available superior Morus rubra specimens. Morus rubra (red mulberry) is a vigorous, adaptable fruit-bearing tree native to eastern and cent...
