The bark looks right. The Mulberry I see all the time has irregular shaped leaves. I see that tree in the woods, but never positively ID’d it.
??? it might be the other kinda of variety (I think its white vs. red... dont quote me on it) that we have around here... But like Chud said ours is usually more irregular shaped ones...
The type we had growing here had about the same leaf. Bark looks about right for Mulberry. Stuff burns good, but it does crackle and pop a lot.
Red Mulberry has a leaf shaped like that. Is the back side of the leaf pubescent? Reds are supposedly a rare native in NC.
Black Mulberry has a similar leaf shape, so I’m going to say yes it’s Mulberry, just gotta figure out the species.
Bark looks like it, not that ive cut much. Very recent pics of mulberry i discovered. The number ive seen around here i can count on my hands and im ALWAYS looking at trees.
What's funny is that tree has some of the 3 point leaves on it as well. They are visible in the bottom pic.
Nah, gonna let this one live awhile. Our big mulberry looks like it is dying back, several large limbs are dead in it.
T.Jeff Veal Do you do anything with the berries? I have a white mulberry and from my reading they are excellent and very sweet. But I just can't get to them, the squirrels and birds just beat me too it. And apparently they will not ripen once picked. I was able to get a few last year that were almost ripe to taste, really nice flavor and sweet.
We have made jelly before from the other tree. I would lift our son up in the bucket of the tractor and he would have fun pickin.
I something causing it to die back? Maybe it is an old tree on it's way out, that is a good size one though.
It's probably 30-35 yrs old. I knew it had the lower dead limb, but started seeing all the other bark coming off once the leaves fell.
