Tree ID?

split toe

Member

• May 10, 2019

• #1

I’m going to hack and squirt and kill this tree and release some oaks around it if it is not a valuable tree, I don’t think it is?



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144

Active Member

• May 10, 2019

• #2

It looks like a mulberry to me. If so, I would keep it.

It looks like you have fruit hanging down below the leaves on the first pic. Can you get a close up of it?


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Native Hunter

Well-Known Member

• May 10, 2019

• #3

It's Morus Rubra (Red Mulberry). The fruit is usually black when ripe, but there can be some variation due to hybridization with other mulberry species. Red is the mulberry that is native to the United States. It's a good tree for both wildlife and humans.

PS: It appears to be a pure Red or almost pure Red, but could be a cross. No matter - it is a good tree.

 

Last edited: May 10, 2019

split toe

Member

• May 10, 2019

• #4

Damn, I was hoping it was useless. It is crowding a couple of white oaks and it was on my "hit list"

 

Native Hunter

Well-Known Member

• May 10, 2019

• #5

split toe said:

Damn, I was hoping it was useless. It is crowding a couple of white oaks and it was on my "hit list"

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It can never hurt those white oaks. They will grow twice as tall as that mulberry. When you eat some of the fruit in a few weeks you will be glad you left it.

Or you could just take the Chuck and Nancy approach and call good "bad" and bad "good." Then you could whack it down and not feel guilty.......

 

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SwampCat

Well-Known Member

• May 11, 2019

• #6

Great place for a spring squirrel hunt in AR when those berries get ripe.

 

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TreeDaddy

Well-Known Member

• May 12, 2019

• #7

Berries won't last long.......all animals love them

bill

 

dogghr

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• May 13, 2019

• #8

Youve not lived till you have watched a bear standing on its hind legs to pluck the berries off gingerly with its lips as if its kissing its firstborne. I agree, except perhaps stealing some moisture from adjacent oak trees, it should be a non competiter. Leave them.

 

Cap'n

Active Member

• May 13, 2019

• #9

The definition of a weed is something growing where you don’t want it to. Wait until the mulberry’s are gone then release the oaks. That tree will be reseeded somewhere near I guarantee it.