Uh....Blackberry Tree?

Pat B · July 01, 2019, 07:29:48 PM

I planted 2 pawpaw patches about 15 years ago and have never seen a pawpaw. They both flower quite a bit in the spring but no fruit.
Terry, I'm surprised a Georgia boy has never seen a mulberry.

blacktailbob · July 01, 2019, 08:09:20 PM

I think Terry needs to get out more.

blacktailbob · July 01, 2019, 08:10:16 PM

DUCK!!!

Here comes a mulberry!

pavan · July 01, 2019, 08:30:11 PM

Around here the basswoods are smelling great and the honey bees are busy making the best tasting honey in the world from them. The mulberries are also having a super year, they are dumping buckets of large berries. They are about the best tasting wild berry there is. The robins think so too. There is purple robin poop every where.

Bowguy67 · July 01, 2019, 08:39:03 PM

Good to eat but you ought to see one over a river or brook. Each time berries fall in the carp go nuts. We'd bowfish em there, take kids fishing, use purple deer hair n spin mulberry flies as kids. You ought to see the carp around one. Like sharks

arrow30 · July 01, 2019, 09:43:59 PM

Quote from: Bowguy67 on July 01, 2019, 08:39:03 PM
Good to eat but you ought to see one over a river or brook. Each time berries fall in the carp go nuts. We'd bowfish em there, take kids fishing, use purple deer hair n spin mulberry flies as kids. You ought to see the carp around one. Like sharks

I have caught a bunch of carp on a flyrod under mulberry trees, using a dark woolybugger. talk about FUN! especially when you get a biggun. 20-25 lber.

I love me some mullberrys!! I think they are sweeter than blackberries.

marsh chicken · July 01, 2019, 10:05:49 PM

I figured everyone had Mulberry trees. We have them all over the woods in south MS. The jelly is second only to Mayhaw jelly that we make also. If you want to plant your own Mulberry trees they grow very quickly and will be producing heavily in 5 years or less with just a little care.

rainman · July 01, 2019, 11:02:54 PM

Like Osage there are male and female trees. Only female trees have the berries.

pdk25 · July 01, 2019, 11:59:03 PM

Have 3 mulberry trees in my orchard, but they grew wild where I lived in Pennsylvania. Tasty, but don't park your car near them. The birds are awfully fond of them.

Bow Bender · July 02, 2019, 02:37:47 AM

When I was growing up in Missouri they were the go to spot for hunting squirrels in the early summer before acorns, walnuts, and hickory nuts were ready for them to feed on.

I don't know how far North they grow but I don't know of any here in MT .

smokin joe · July 02, 2019, 08:00:03 AM

Mulberry is also a bit of a nuisance in that the berries will stain just about anything. They are good to eat, if you can get them before the birds do. A tree full of berries can be a deer magnet. Be sure to take off your shoes before you walk on a good carpet if you have been under a mulberry tree when the berries are falling.

rastaman · July 02, 2019, 09:38:01 AM

And hogs will stay pretty close by when the berries start dropping if there are any in the area. They love them!

mjh · July 04, 2019, 08:28:46 AM

Get an old bed sheet cover the ground under the tree. Shake the limbs vigorously causing the fruit to fall. Collect up fruit take home, make jam, wine. Mulberry's good tree.

I've seen a mulberry self bow or two over the years. Folks shooting them seemed pretty happy with them.

Cyclic-Rivers · July 04, 2019, 09:48:31 AM

Lots of mulberries here. There's both red and green. Good bow wood and if you find one over the water, carp eat the berries when they hit the water. Bowfishing or fishing is very good for them during the short window. Never seen the deer gravitate to them with so many other food options this time of year

kat · July 04, 2019, 10:18:07 AM

I'll try this again. Somehow, I managed to post this pic. on a different thread.
These are Mulberry veneers on a Tall Tines.
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Wheels2 · July 04, 2019, 01:08:05 PM

In my high school/ college days I shot a lot of groundhogs out of the lower branches and the tree bases as they fed on them

KentuckyWolf · July 04, 2019, 01:25:36 PM

Mulberry and clover feed ground hogs are good eating.

Wheels2 · July 04, 2019, 02:34:52 PM

Someone mentioned paw-paws.
I have a spot on the mountain where they grow.
September 1st finds me collecting them. I keep planting them.where I bow hunt in hopes of starting my own patch. I often find the deer eating them as I collect a few. They don't last long once they fall to the ground

Possum Head · July 04, 2019, 08:17:50 PM

Quote from: kat on July 04, 2019, 10:18:07 AM
I'll try this again. Somehow, I managed to post this pic. on a different thread.
These are Mulberry veneers on a Tall Tines.
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Beautiful 👍

Terry Green · July 06, 2019, 07:09:21 AM

Quote from: blacktailbob on July 01, 2019, 08:09:20 PM
I think Terry needs to get out more.

Too funny....I've "been out" all my life....just never ran into one of these trees....why?, heck if I know

Uh....Blackberry Tree?

pavan

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