Tree ID - Is this a Mulberry?

I have been meaning to ID this for 10 years since we bought the house, but never got around to it. Location- Traverse City, Michigan

All my searches bring me close to mulberry, but it never has fruit. I did just read that male trees do not produce fruit...

Every spring I think its dead as the leaves do not pop until late may/ early June and it hold all its leaves until one or two days in the fall and drops them all so fast you can hear them.

The kicker is, the deer love grazing under it, for what reason I do not know.

Note the third leaf, is not pointed like the other 2 (seems like some mulberry leaves....)

 

Yes, 100% mulberry (white variety as opposed to native red) and you're right about males producing no berries. Same thing here in southern New England with the late leaf-out too.

 

Copy that, what was your indication its a white and not red?

 

Top surface of the leaves are shiny and not dull, and the general bark appearance with the orange hues inside the fissures.

 

Mulberry for sure.
My favorite trees
I believe mulberry can have more leaf variation than any other type of tree.
If it is a white and if it produces make sure to eat some next year the whites are delicious

 

Love me some mulberry firewood!! Snaps, crackles and pops and has a very pleasant aroma.

If you trim any branches, save it for smoking meats.

 

I was going to say mulberry also. I have a huge one in the back yard that leafs out really late in the spring and drops really late in the fall. One of my favorite for firewood if you can find a straight one. Splits pretty easy, has a really neat yellow heart wood and great BTU’s.

My landscape friends all call it a weed (kind of makes me made, but not really because I like it). They grow involuntary all over the place.

gwoods71 be glad yours doesn’t have fruit, the birds eat it and crap it right out all over the place!

 

Not my pics just some I copied off google.

 

Yup, sure is a MB. Typical clump they seem to grow in based on my observations. My favorite wood to scrounge. I get rather giddy when I score some. If you don't want it I'd be glad to cut it down for you.

Be thank full it doesn't produce fruit or the birds would make a mess.

We have a small one growing on the edge of our woods and it still had mostly green leaves on it until a couple days ago when it was cold and they all seemed to fall off at once. Ill get some pics if I remember.

 

I like mulberry's so much I intentionally let volunteers grow in my yard.
I think I'm up to 8 mulberry's on half an acre.
Only 3 of these are big enough to produce
A few years and we have berries for all uear

 

Yep, that's mulberry. I didn't know how to recognize them, but now I see them quite often down here. Some make fruit and some don't

 

So, even though this is a male I believe, as it doesn't produce fruit.

Why do the deer love to graze under it so much in November?

 

Couple pics of my mulberry. You can see how it drops the leaves all at once. It produced fruit this year but nothing ripened as they were gone pretty quick with the birds and squirrels feasting on them.

 

Is the grass greener under the tree than it is in the rest of the surrounding field?

 

I don’t know for sure but I do know that the deer here will eat the dropped leaves from our apple trees. They look just like a Hoover vacuum going around the tree