Blackberry tree?

 I know you're going to say it is a mulberry-- but my wife is quite
sure it isn't.

She saw it today at a patient's house. [she's a traveling nurse].

She says the top branches were way too high for her to reach and the
lady said she used to keep it trimmed but hasn't been well enough to
keep it contained recently.

Looks like a tree, not a bush.  There are no thorns.  Berries are
tasty & look like blackberries.     Leaves are like oak leaves.

Zone 5ish in New York. [Schenectady county]

We have a black mulberry & I showed her a branch.    Nope-- the leaves
are wrong, and the berries aren't quite right.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jim

 
There is such a thing as a 'thornless backberry' but they are just like a
blackberry in every other respect ie, they have multiple stems and there is
no possible way that they could be described as a tree.  I'll think about
it, but nothing comes immediately to mind.

 
Jim Elbrecht;928515 Wrote:

Probably a red mulberry then.  Red mulberries (Morus rubra) have quite
variable leaf shapes, from nearly round to deeply lobed like black
mulberry, as can be seen if you google images for it.  The one shown on
Wikipedia 'Morus rubra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
(http://tinyurl.com/6xg6u34 )
is a bit oak-tree leaf like. Despite the name, red mulberry fruits are
black when ripe.

I think if there was another Z5-hardy tree with tasty blackberry-like
berries, aside from the two kinds of black-fruited mulberry, I would
know about it, because I've done a lot of research into tasty things I
can grow. See this site. 'Plant Uses' (http://tinyurl.com/6l28ond )




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 Derald wrote:

I have seen bushes grafted on the top of a tree trunk.  I looks pretty
wierd but it works as decoration.  Before following that like I thought
in terms of a thornless blackberry version grafted onto a mullberry
trunk.