unusual leaf

[Furby]

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]

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]

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

[pigman]

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]

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]

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]

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]

When do I get mine?  I mean marbles mulberries.

[WDH]

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

[SwampDonkey]

Do they look kinda like a black berry? 

[WDH]

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

[Tom]

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]

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]

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 .

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

[Tom]

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]

But still simian at heart, no doubt .

[Tom]