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Posted By: 330-Trapper

Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:05 PM

The Berries are probably edible ...but I dont know what it is??

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Posted By: Cragar

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:06 PM

Mulberry ?
Posted By: Catch22

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:07 PM

Mulberry
Posted By: Moosetrot

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:08 PM

Mulberry. I have a yard full of the pests.

Moosetrot
Posted By: 160user

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:16 PM

They look delicious. I planted a few a couple of years ago but they haven't produced yet.
Posted By: 20scout

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:19 PM

Yes, they do look good. So are they as delicious as they look?
Posted By: cmcf

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:23 PM

When I was young I ate them till my face and hands were purple. One of my favorite berries.
Posted By: billwhitakermo

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:26 PM

They are pretty good but birds spread them like wildfire.
Posted By: dkrug

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:27 PM

Birds like them, and they will paint your car with them.
Posted By: Catch22

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by cmcf
When I was young I ate them till my face and hands were purple. One of my favorite berries.

Yep, we'd climb up and eat till we got floundered lol. Got the stinkeye from Mama for staining my clothes too. grin
Posted By: danny clifton

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:32 PM

wood from mulberries are delicious cooking and smoking wood also. right up there with hickory and apple.
Posted By: KeithC

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:39 PM

Mulberries are good to eat as is. They make good jelly, jams, pies and wine. Mulberry is my favorite wood to grill on.

Keith
Posted By: Pawnee

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by cmcf
When I was young I ate them till my face and hands were purple. One of my favorite berries.


Same here. I’d be out riding pastures with the head cowboy and we would pull up to a tree and eat until we were purple smurfs.
Posted By: pcr2

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by Catch22
Mulberry

yepper,used to remind me of the movie--the birds--cause the blackbirds would attack an old biggun we HAD when the berries were ripe.. frown
Posted By: Michael Lippold

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:46 PM

My kids love them! My son (1.5 years old) knows exactly where they are at when we are out driving the side by side around
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by pcr2
Originally Posted by Catch22
Mulberry

yepper,used to remind me of the movie--the birds--cause the blackbirds would attack an old biggun we HAD when the berries were ripe.. frown

Did you go round the mulberry bush,,,,early in the morning ?? grin
Posted By: Flipper 56

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:50 PM

We had one right behind our house when we were kids that we climbed and ate mulberries in. Purple stains everywhere!
Posted By: pcr2

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:54 PM

ours was about 18" chest high-tree.
Posted By: k snow

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:55 PM

Mulberry is a close cousin to osage orange (hedge apple or bodark). Makes very good all wood primitive bows.
Posted By: Lugnut

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 05:56 PM

Yep, it’s a mulberry tree. I have two of them in my front yard. Some years the fruits are big and juicy and about as sweet as anything you’ve ever tasted.

I used to fish a spot on the Maiden Creek where a couple of mulberry trees overhung the river. When the ripe fruits were dropping the carp would school there and eat them up. A buddy and I would head there before sunrise and just hammer them.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by k snow
Mulberry is a close cousin to osage orange (hedge apple or bodark). Makes very good all wood primitive bows.

Too bad there fruit doesn't taste the same! A mulberry the size of a hedge apple would be awesome!
Posted By: Turtledale

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:28 PM

Made wine many times from my mulberry tree. Got a smaller tree I put mesh over to keep the birds from eating them all up, they'll eat em before their ripe enough for me. Had a real heavy crop this year
Posted By: Gary Benson

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:31 PM

A fair firewood too if you can find it in quantity.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:39 PM

Very very few mulberries here this year. Most trees I looked at didn't produce any
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Moosetrot
Mulberry. I have a yard full of the pests.

Moosetrot

Why are they pests?

Dosen't it feed wildlife?
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:47 PM

This big tree is in Richfield at my Uncles apt. I think Ill find a couple to plant.

Not from Gurneys anymore though.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 06:57 PM

We have a few around here we call white mulberry because there fruit barely gets purple when its fully ripe
They are sweeter than the dark purple or black ones.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by Yes sir
We have a few around here we call white mulberry because there fruit barely gets purple when its fully ripe
They are sweeter than the dark purple or black ones.

Interesting
Posted By: Moosetrot

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
Originally Posted by Moosetrot
Mulberry. I have a yard full of the pests.

Moosetrot

Why are they pests?

Dosen't it feed wildlife?


Yes, but the birds eat and subsequently plant so many of them, everywhere, that they are very hard to keep up with. It seems anywhere a bird poops, several Mulberry trees will sprout. Plus, as others have said, when the berries are ripe they are all over our cars and anything else outside. I have so many, when I mow, they drop down into my tractor seat and stain anything I am wearing.

yes, I have eaten them and they are really good, but too much of a good thing. What is fun is every year we have kids, and parents stopping along the road and picking the berries.

Moosetrot
Posted By: EdP

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 08:39 PM

I used to horseback ride on a farm that had a couple of mulberry trees. When they would get ripe I'd stop and get a few handfuls for me and some for the horse too. Wish I had some here.
Posted By: Birdman382

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 09:17 PM

I have eaten them as they are good. Could they be mulberry.
Posted By: gcs

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 09:26 PM

The white ones are originally from silkworm producers that have gone feral over the years, silk worms don't like the native black mulberrys, and they are sweeter, too sweet for me.
Posted By: J.Morse

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 10:46 PM

Mulberry is, for me anyway, one of those things that prove the old saw "too much of a good thing". If I ate too many I'd end up getting a bellyache. They sure make owning a white vehicle a real chore if the tree is too close to the house! The neighbor had a big tree in their back yard when I was a kid. It was quite a draw to all the local Starlings, etc. I would hide in the hedge with my air rifle and stack'em up.
Posted By: Dillrod

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by gcs
The white ones are originally from silkworm producers that have gone feral over the years, silk worms don't like the native black mulberrys, and they are sweeter, too sweet for me.


I find that to be true for the white ones also.
White Mulberries used to be very rare here.
Up until 5-6 yrs ago i had only seen three in prob 60 yrs..
Now like the black ones they are more common here.
The one thing with Mulberries is the berry is constructed a lot like a grape cluster.
Little stems to each lobe of the berry.
Doesn't bother me any but i've heard complaints.
Find you a fist full of the ripe ones and you will probably reach for more.
None of the trees in my area produced this year, ( late frost issue I think.)
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Dillrod
Originally Posted by gcs
The white ones are originally from silkworm producers that have gone feral over the years, silk worms don't like the native black mulberrys, and they are sweeter, too sweet for me.


I find that to be true for the white ones also.
White Mulberries used to be very rare here.
Up until 5-6 yrs ago i had only seen three in prob 60 yrs..
Now like the black ones they are more common here.
The one thing with Mulberries is the berry is constructed a lot like a grape cluster.
Little stems to each lobe of the berry.
Doesn't bother me any but i've heard complaints.
Find you a fist full of the ripe ones and you will probably reach for more.
None of the trees in my area produced this year, ( late frost issue I think.)

I was reading up a little on mulberries since this tread came up and learned soil type plays a big role in flavor. Our black or red mulberries are pretty bland some years but the white ones are always sweet. Maybe you guys have better soil than we do here. Three kinds black, red and white. I think the red is the only native one.
Posted By: Drakej

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 11:03 PM

If you want anything PERMANENTLY purple dye it in squished mulberries.
Posted By: Rat_Pack

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by danny clifton
wood from mulberries are delicious cooking and smoking wood also. right up there with hickory and apple.

It sure is. I have two that are going to come down and I'll use it next year
Posted By: Trapset

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/29/20 11:54 PM

I put up 6 pints and 12 half pints of Mulberry jelly this year. We lay a tarp down and shake the tree with long hooks. Works pretty good. Ate a lot of fresh ones this year as well. Love em!

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Posted By: Bruce T

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/30/20 11:55 AM

Nice trees to have around.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/30/20 12:29 PM

Awesome Trapset
Posted By: logger coffey

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/30/20 12:49 PM

On a side note, they make good fence post also . almost rot resistant.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: Another What tree is this? - 07/30/20 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by logger coffey
On a side note, they make good fence post also . almost rot resistant.

They must grow slow then.
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