I learned of mulberry being good firewood since being a member here. I had heard of it and only knew of the sapling that sprouted in my moms back yard back many years ago and grew into a tree. In my daily travels im always looking at trees (you know how that goes). The number ive seen can be counted on one hand. This one was next door to where i was working yesterday. I can usually spot them by what i call the "witches broom" effect on the upper limbs. This one looked partly dead. The only wood i have scrounged is some roadside once (albeit a small amount) and at the dump. So FHC, is this a rare tree where you are located?
I've not noticed any, that I'd recognize as mulberry. Not too many monkeys or weasels around here, to cause a closer look.
The one mulberry that I managed to get my hands on, I thought was a dead boxelder. Haven't noticed others, they're not common.
They're all over here in Southwest Ohio. Have always had some in my stacks since I started burning. Great firewood
Northeast Ohio mulberry is almost a weed. Nobody wants it in their yard so they normally cut them down as saplings
A friend of ours gave us a mulberry she had cut down. Burns really well, but it pops and sparks a good amount. The wood gets a really dark reddish brown when seasoned.
There was a big one in my backyard. They have invasive roots and was near the septic so I cut it down. Was 70 years old. The wood is yellow with a white sap but dries this dark brown.
They aren’t rare around here but you don’t see them all over the place either. The timing of this thread is funny though because my log guy dropped off mulberry yesterday for the first time this year.
This might be white mulberry, but I'm not sure. Some of the leaves have a little bit of a more maple shape and the bark looks like norway maple. When I broke the leaf off there was no sap. It didn't bleed white sap like Norway, or clear like red maple, it didn't bleed at all. It's a tree down the street that has never had flowers or any fruit (unless they are way up the top) and it's a good 75 foot tall tree. For a long time I thought it was an oddball on the side of the road but on my nightly run I've recently come across another leaf just like it on the ground. So there are more of them growing around here . It's not a planted ornamental/hybrid.
Mulberry is common in SE Wisconsin. Warning use caution eating to many mullberys to far from a restroom !!
and don't park your car under a tree when birds are feasting on the berries. They are common around here. I had one blow over winter 2018/2019 and it is now ready to burn.
Same here...that doesn't look anything like Mulberry here...and we have them everywhere. I have a couple decent sized volunteers in the yard, and some more "weed type" volunteers that keep coming up in the front flowerbed...I keep hacking them off, they pop right back up in 3-4 weeks...need to give 'em some Tordon...
Yeah, (red) mulberry supposedly bleeds white sap from its petiole like norway maple and this doesn't. Course we're in a drought, so grain of salt ... Plus that leaf is a tad too big for white or red mulberry at least according to the north america species book I have.
Good carp fishing can be had if you find an overhanging mulberry tree over a lake. When the berries are present and falling, the carp eat them like candy.
Red Mulberry is native in my area but I’ve never see a mature tree. There is a shrubby mulberry that grows like a weed around here. I planted some Red Mulberry and the deer keep em sheared, so I don’t think they will ever reach the sky.
