Maple sapling?
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Michelle Eliker on Jun 03, 2013It looks like a mulberry maybe.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 03, 2013That's what I'm afraid of Michelle! I sure hope it's not!!Helpful Reply
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Melanie Ritchie on Jun 04, 2013yes a Mulberry for sure, not a mapleHelpful Reply
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KMS Woodworks on Jun 04, 2013Another vote for Mulberry....which is a great tree for providing a rich food source for birds...just do not park your shinny new Beemer under or near it.Helpful Reply
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P on Jun 04, 2013Looks like a mulberry. Yummy berries. The birds can make quite a mess near it and it can grow to be quite large.Helpful Reply
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Lori J on Jun 04, 2013And birds will poop purple messes all over, making you the toast of the town with anybody who uses a clothesline.Helpful Reply
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Charlotte MacDiarmid on Jun 04, 2013I agree with everyone else.. Mulberry trees are such a nuisance and they do grow to be huge. The birds love the berries but they sure make a mess after eating them. I'd get rid of it ASAP, unless you like mulberries.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 04, 2013Thanks everyone for your help!! Since I have "raised" this little thing, It's hard to just trash it and let it die. So I've decided to plant it in a nearby field. Guess I will just have to buy a maple tree this fall. Thx again everybody!Helpful Reply
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LeAnn Shultz on Jun 04, 2013Here is where I order my plants, they are always in great condition and relatively inexpensive. They are rather small...a foot or two when received but you can depend on quality from here....http://www.arborday.org/shopping/trees/trees.cfmHelpful Reply
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Janette on Jun 04, 2013I agree, not maple but I also don't think it is mulberry.Helpful Reply
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Debby Boyle on Jun 05, 2013I don't thing so..Look's more like an oak!Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 05, 2013Well, now I don't know what to do...I really would like to know whether it's Oak or Mulberry because it directly affects where it's going to be planted....Douglas Hunt, if your out there somewhere I could use your expertise right now!!Helpful Reply
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KMS Woodworks on Jun 05, 2013Its not an oak...red oaks and pin oaks have leaves with sharp tips, white oaks have more rounded lobes. http://treedoctor.anr.msu.edu/oakwilt/2redoak.jpg http://alleghenymountainhardwoodflooring.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/white-oak-leaf.jpg?w=138 Mulberry leaves can be a bit variable https://www.google.com/search?q=mulberry+leaf&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ukCvUfniE4W6yAHU6YG4DA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=461Helpful Reply
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Lindsay Jackson on Jun 05, 2013definitely not an oak. Have you tried asking the agent at your county extension service or forestry service?Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 05, 2013I just emailed them some pictures Lindsay. Hopefully I'll hear something soon.Helpful Reply
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Jerre Haag on Jun 05, 2013Could possibly be a non bearing mulberry. We have one and your photo really favors what ours looks like.Helpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 05, 2013I have one just like it. Not a mulberry, thought it might be an oak. It's still a mystery. It appeared in my yard 2 years ago, I transplanted it the first year and it is now about 8 feet tall.Helpful Reply
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Laura Kranz McDonough on Jun 05, 2013mulberryHelpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 05, 2013Yeah Terri, this one showed up in one of my flower pots I had outside last fall. I just let it grow thinking it was a maple. Now I don't know what to think....Does the one you have bear any kind of fruit? Is it a pretty tree? Can you post a picture of yours? I would love to see it!Helpful Reply
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KMS Woodworks on Jun 06, 2013It can take a few years for a plant to mature to a point where it will produce fruit or reproductive structures. I have some pines in my yard that are 20 years old and have yet to produce "cones".Helpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 07, 2013Donna, I hope these pictures help. I have had my tree for 2 years this July. It started on the other side of the house and I moved it one January to this location. The pergola's height is 10 or 12 feet tall for comparison. No fruit of any kind at this point. I've also included a picture of the leaf of my neighbor's mulberry tree leaves for comparison.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 07, 2013Thx so much for the pictures Terri. The leaves of your mystery tree looks very similar to mine!! Maybe the same bird that dropped the "seed" there visited me too! LOL. Are the leaves of your tree a little rough? My little tree's leaves are not smooth but not super rough either. I sent an email with pictures to the County Extension Office a few days ago but have not heard back yet. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as I do. We may have stumbled upon a new "species!" I know it is not a mulberry!! I'm going to plant it this fall by the back fence as I like the looks of it in your pictures! Thx again and I'll let you know what I find out!!Helpful Reply
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Jossi on Jun 07, 2013Neither a Maple nor an oak, but I don't know what it IS. LOL Bring it to your local garden center, or even florist ?Helpful Reply
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P on Jun 07, 2013I used to have one of these. Definitely a mulberry. Absolutely not an Oak of any kind.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 08, 2013OK Terri, I haven't heard anything from Extension Office yet, but I found this picture online. This is what I believe our trees to be. What do you think?Helpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 08, 2013Looks very similar to what we have Donna! So...what is it? LOL! By the way, notice the leaves of the tree growing on one side...that looks like mulberry. The leaves on my tree are not super rough (fig-like), nor are they super smooth. It's pretty, whatever it is and if it's a bearing mulberry, so be it...I'll save on bird seed and it will provide a snack for my grandkids. They can't be any worse than our honey locust trees that multiply at the same rate that the birds poop and those roots I have come to find out are pretty invasive, too.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 08, 2013Fruitless Mulberry. The leaves on mine are the same as yours. Not smooth, but not super rough. Until I hear something from Extension Office, I'm going to assume that this is what it is....Click on the picture and follow the web address I wrote at the bottom...Helpful Reply
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Michelle Eliker on Jun 08, 2013http://ppwsipm.contentsrvr.net/mulberry.phpHelpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 17, 2013So it appears the consensus is that it is a mulberry. I thought mulberries were supposed to flower before the leaves sprout in the spring. I know my yard gets full of the flowers from my neighbor's tree in the spring. Mine just sprouts leaves every spring...no flowers, no berries.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 17, 2013If it is a "non-fruit bearing" Mulberry, it wouldn't get flowers or berries. I still haven't heard back from the extension office. I've emailed them twice! I'm not completely convinced that they are Mulberry trees, but the leaves of the one in the last picture I found online sure looks a lot like it.Helpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 18, 2013Well, if a "non-fruit bearing" mulberry doesn't get flowers or berries...then what are all those annoying caterpillar looking things that fall from my neighbor's non-bearing mulberry that literally cover my yard in the Spring? I thought they were the flowers that start irritate everyone's allergies. Now I'm thoroughly confused! LOL!Helpful Reply
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KMS Woodworks on Jun 19, 2013@Terri G Those "catapiller' Things are Catkins, which is the male Pollen producing flower. http://tree-species.blogspot.com/2011/04/white-mulberry-spring-flowers.htmlHelpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 19, 2013That's what I always thought they were...hence my confusion.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 19, 2013Now I'M confused! LOL! I didn't realize your neighbor's tree was a non fruit bearing tree. I didn't think they would flower either. Does it get the berries also?? My pecan trees get those "catkins" in their producing year but not in the non producing year. You would think if they flower, they also produce? Oh well, guess it doesn't matter. I'm going to plant it this fall anyway! LOL!!Helpful Reply
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Jerre Haag on Jun 20, 2013Ours get the catkins, but has never produced any fruit for over 20 years now.Helpful Reply
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Terri G on Jun 21, 2013My neighbor's tree which is about 50 years old (I'm guessing) has never produced berries because generally the non-fruit bearing mulberry doesn't. It has catkins every Spring and they leave a huge mess in my yard and those are the irritants for allergies because they have so much pollen. I have a nectarine and an apple tree...they flower every year, but take turns producing fruit...one year we'll have small nectarines, next year we'll have apples. Go figure! Enjoy your tree...whatever it is!Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 21, 2013Thx Terri! I plan on planting it this fall. And...I have 2 pecan trees that do the same thing. I get pecans from one of them one year and pecans from the other one the next year. They've been alternating like that for 20 yrs. Mother Nature is weird! LOL! Enjoy your tree too!!! :-)Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 29, 2013@Douglas Hunt can you help me with this one?Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Jun 30, 2013Donna, what you are experiencing is known as alternate bearing, and it is quite common with pecans: http://www.caes.uga.edu/commodities/fruits/pecanbreeding/cultivars/alternate_bearing.html At least you are lucky that you have two trees on different schedules.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jun 30, 2013Thanks for the info on the Pecan trees @Douglas Hunt but what I needed help with was identifying the little tree. I know 98% of those who replied said Mulberry, but I'm not convinced. I've contacted a couple arborists and one said Bur Oak the other said Rose of Sharon. So I was wondering what you thought...Helpful Reply
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KMS Woodworks on Jul 01, 2013Burr oak have "longer" leaves and they are not rough like a mulberry. https://www.google.com/search?q=Bur+oak+leaves&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=3YrRUcq5CYWzywH344CwDw&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=461Helpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on Jul 01, 2013I'm afraid I'm not very good at leaf ID, Donna, but that does not look like any Rose of Sharon leaf I've ever seen.Helpful Reply
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Donna N on Jul 08, 2013Hey @Terri G my tree is a white Mulberry. I don't know if yours is one also but a nursery in OKC identified it today and said 100% Mulberry. Mine will have a lovely home down by the creek!Helpful Reply
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Terri G on Jul 09, 2013Well, it's good to know what we're dealing with now Donna N! I plan to relocate mine to the front yard of the house come late winter...I'm afraid the root system of a mulberry will wreak havoc on the sewer lines that run from the back of the house towards the alley. This way there's more room for the plethora of Honey Locust trees that seem to be sprouting every other week!Helpful Reply
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Peg on Jul 10, 2013Looks like a mulberry to me. They are all over up here and they make a mess.Helpful Reply
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