Author Topic: unusual leaf (Read 2760 times)

anneoakleaf · « **on:** December 09, 2007, 04:34:07 pm »

Jeff, I found an unsual leaf I wanted you to identify for me. I was trying to download it to your website but I guess the file is too big. I will send it to your sister as I do not have your e-mail address. Maybe she can forward it to you.

anne oakleaf in Chicago

Furby · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2007, 05:43:20 pm »

Welcome Anne.

We can walk you through the pic problem if you'd like to do it yourself.
There are instructions under the help button at the top of the page.
Feel free to ask if you get stuck.

Wildflower · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2007, 08:09:59 pm »

anneoakleaf,

Hey welcome to the forum. You will now have to make it a point to comne to the Pig Roast in August. Pete and Lynda come every year. It is nice to see ya.

Tammy

anneoakleaf · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:23:32 pm »

Hey Tammy, how did you know it was me?? I was trying to be clever so you wouldn't know who this was.

Anyways, Jason e-mailed me and I sent the pic onto him. It wasn't a real clear pic but enough so he could tell what it was, I hope. Maybe I will try later to download the pic again.

Furby · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:24:23 pm »

Here ya go!

anneoakleaf · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:34:38 pm »

Thanks Furby for posting my pic. Do you know what kind of tree it is?

Does anyone know?

Anne Oakleaf

Furby · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:39:08 pm »

Looks like mulberry to me, but it's been a while since I've seen a leaf so I could be way off.
Where did you find?

WDH · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2007, 10:58:40 pm »

I vote with Furby.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #8 on:** December 10, 2007, 07:13:01 am »

If it's not a mulberry, it's the same shape as a sassafras to.

anneoakleaf · « **Reply #9 on:** December 10, 2007, 08:28:35 am »

I don't think it's a mulberry as I didn't see any berries so maybe it's a sassafras. I found it in downtown Waukegan, Illinois this past fall. I found the leaf to be so very intresting that I had to find out what it was. Thanks!

Anne Oakleaf

anneoakleaf · « **Reply #10 on:** December 10, 2007, 08:43:21 am »

Hey Furby, I've been in Grand Rapids as well. I went to college there up on Beltline. Back then it was Called Grand Rapids Baptist College. I forgot what they changed the name to now. We used to go up to Michigan Hill...kind of like inspiration point. There also used to be the weather ball did they move it or just got rid of it? I've also been to John Ball Park & Zoo. So you see the world is sort of small huh?

Anne Oakleaf

Dale Hatfield · « **Reply #11 on:** December 10, 2007, 09:20:09 am »

Mullberry is my vote as Sassafrass has a smooth leaf edge.
Dale

WDH · « **Reply #12 on:** December 10, 2007, 09:38:57 am »

It is definitely mulberry. The mulberries are long gone, assuming the tree was a female. If it was a male, no berries, never.

Jeff · « **Reply #13 on:** December 10, 2007, 10:13:33 am »

I concur with the Bassist.

Welcome to the ForestryForum anneoakleaf! You realize Im goona slip up and call you by your real name dontcha?

Anneoakleaf is family. She is my Brother-in-law's wife's sister-in-law.

Greg · « **Reply #14 on:** December 10, 2007, 11:42:52 am »

Definitely not sassafras.

Don't know anything about mulberry.

This leaf looks very similar to a landscaping bush sold alot around here, called oak leaf hydrangea.

Greg

Tom · « **Reply #15 on:** December 10, 2007, 02:52:17 pm »

I agree with mulberry and probably white mulberry as well. It's white that has the most ornamental shaped leaves even though Red or Black may have a few. The first white mulberry leaf I ever saw reminded me of a chinese pagoda and I've never forgotten it. They have all kinds of angles and are generally symetrical so that there are parts that look like spear tips or multi-roofed chinese buildings.

Geoff Kegerreis · « **Reply #16 on:** December 10, 2007, 03:06:31 pm »

Absolutely Mulberry.

Tom · « **Reply #17 on:** December 10, 2007, 04:46:45 pm »

Here's a picture of a White Mulberry leaf I posted years ago. Pretty distinctive.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #18 on:** December 10, 2007, 05:28:30 pm »

Yup, no doubt about it.

WDH · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2007, 08:36:50 pm »

If it is red mulberry, it will be scrabrous, rough to the tongue, like sandpaper. If it is white mulberry, it will be smooth as a baby's bottom, and that is real smooth...

.

Furby · « **Reply #20 on:** December 11, 2007, 12:39:57 am »

Quote from: anneoakleaf on December 10, 2007, 08:43:21 am

Hey Furby, I've been in Grand Rapids as well. I went to college there up on Beltline. Back then it was Called Grand Rapids Baptist College. I forgot what they changed the name to now. We used to go up to Michigan Hill...kind of like inspiration point. There also used to be the weather ball did they move it or just got rid of it? I've also been to John Ball Park & Zoo. So you see the world is sort of small huh?

That would be Cornerstone University, I go past there a lot in the summer.

Weather ball was removed a long time ago, and brought back to life several years back by WZZM13.
It's now located at their station at the junction of US-131 and Alpine Ave.

Been a loooooong time since I've been up on the hill, might have to go up there sometime soon.
Yup, it is a small world, the forum proves that!

anneoakleaf · « **Reply #21 on:** December 11, 2007, 06:05:07 pm »

So you guys can say with a great deal of accuracy that is is Mulberry and it's a male one as there were no berries on it? Yeah, I know you said that the berries are long gone. However, I got this leaf before the fall leaf changes and I saw no berry stains on the ground etc. I guess I will have to wait until next year to see if it has berries or not.

Jeff, I am Pete's sister not his sister-in-law. I am Lynda's sister-in-law. Just for the record.

Yes, I would love to go to your pig roast next year. But I may not be able to. I will be taking my vacation in August but we are going to go to the Harley Davidson 105th anniversary ride in Milwaukee. Never been there or done that and don't know when they'll have the next one. We will have to wait and see and play it by ear.

WDH · « **Reply #22 on:** December 11, 2007, 06:29:13 pm »

Check for those berries in Mid-May to Mid-June.

pigman · « **Reply #23 on:** December 11, 2007, 06:40:58 pm »

Now anneoakleaf, Jeff said that you were Pete's sister, he just said it in a complicated way.

"She is my Brother-in-law's wife's sister-in-law"

Furby · « **Reply #24 on:** December 11, 2007, 07:03:41 pm »

I have no signs of berries under or around my trees a couple weeks after they are all off the tree.
So I really doubt you'd see any signs at all in the fall.

Tom · « **Reply #25 on:** December 11, 2007, 08:29:56 pm »

Having no signs of berries or even no berries is a difficult call on Mulberry since it is so slow to produce, 10 years from seed. It is also hard to identify a male or female tree for the same reason, as well as the fact that the sex might change.

Here is a good article I googled up:
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mulberry.html

WDH · « **Reply #26 on:** December 11, 2007, 08:49:40 pm »

Tom,

Very informative article. I never knew that they (red mulberries) could cross-dress until you pointed it out in another thread.

I eagerly await the month of May when My Favorite Mulberry tree is full of fruit

. Reading the article instantly made me want some

.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #27 on:** December 11, 2007, 08:57:47 pm »

When do I get mine? I mean ~~marbles~~ mulberries.

WDH · « **Reply #28 on:** December 11, 2007, 09:13:43 pm »

I will send you some.........

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #29 on:** December 11, 2007, 09:19:21 pm »

Do they look kinda like a black berry?

WDH · « **Reply #30 on:** December 11, 2007, 09:51:24 pm »

Sort of, but much longer. Sweet-tart too, where blackberries are just sweet Yum

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Tom · « **Reply #31 on:** December 11, 2007, 10:25:41 pm »

I think they look more like a Raspberry than a blackberry, except that the stem doesn't come out of a mulberry like it does a Raspberry. I don't know how it is up there, but down South, the kids are a lot easier to keep track of in Mulberry season.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #32 on:** December 12, 2007, 06:55:42 am »

You sure won't find them glomming through the black berry thickets.

and glomming is a word despite the spell checker, all be it slang.

Tom do you glom through the mulberry bushes to gleam the berries?

WDH · « **Reply #33 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:34:22 am »

Glom? Wasn't that the creature in the Lord of the Rings? So, when glomming, you shuffle through the blackberries a little hunched issuing hissing noises

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Next spring, I will have to go glom me some mulberries

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Tom · « **Reply #34 on:** December 12, 2007, 09:23:27 am »

Used to be, when I glommed mulberries, I glommed them from the top of a tree. It lead me to having long arms and a prehensile tail. Only recently have i evolved away from that and begun to take the form of a degraded modern human.

WDH · « **Reply #35 on:** December 12, 2007, 02:15:10 pm »

But still simian at heart, no doubt

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Tom · « **Reply #36 on:** December 12, 2007, 04:39:36 pm »

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Author Topic: unusual leaf (Read 2760 times)