#Treetuesday Backyard

in treetuesday •  6 years ago 

Way in the back of my property Is a very large Twin Mulberry tree that must have been planted by the original inhabitants. Alongside to the right is a large Black Oak that naturally occurred.

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Trees have grown up around the mulberry but it still grows strong. There is a second Mulberry a bit smaller nearby that has died from too much shade.
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Nice

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Thanks @babarakas43

I have a young mulberry tree that must have gotten planted by the birds just at the edge of my woods and I'm hoping that it does well because it does attract a lot of birds when it has fruit! Pooping birds are the best spreaders of mulberry seeds! Yours is a beauty!

It's to shaded now, only the upper branches are alive and it hasn't bared fruit in a long time.

It certainly is a big one! My favorite climbing tree when I was a kid was a mulberry tree. I learned that there are male and female trees and the male trees do not get berries, but then they can change genders. . My climbing tree was a male, at least it was when I spent time in its branches reading my books!

That's cool I'm sure the ones that bare fruit can get quite messy on the ground. Didn't know they could transgender :-)

There was one in our neighbor's yard that would just be loaded with berries and you are right the ground underneath was a solid mushy carpet of purple. I don't remember anyone in the neighborhood picking and using the berries. The birds loved them though and you could tell from all the splats of seedy purple bird poo that covered everything.