Re: Please Help Identify

In a message dated 6/15/02 10:47:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mcalpin1@yahoo.com writes:

<< Comments please. >>
Now there is a tidy neat question, two words.

Mulberries, two kinds grow in the East.  Look at the tree and see if produces 
more than one kind of leaf.  A mature mulbery will produce several leaf 
shapes on the same tree. The fruit is liked by birds here which is a blessing 
as dropping on the ground discolors everything it touches.  One sort, easy 
enough to search, has a red fruit which is not a staining as the purple 
fruited kind.

Mulberries seed here and can grow ten feet in two years.  It is on the city 
lots,  a trash tree.  Primarily because it rains down purple staining fruits 
in midsummer.  You won't find anyone planting them now but since they were 
popular 75 years ago when European immigrants liked the fruit, they persist 
in waste places.   We have two of them growing here, they are not large 
trees.  They have the habit of dropping all of their leaves on one day, all 
at once.

One is being sawed down this summer as it is old and rotted at the base and 
the other's days are numbered.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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