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Old 19-09-2006, 01:03 AM posted to sci.bio.botany
mel turner mel turner is offline
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Default [ID] what kind of tree is this?

"bunkka47" wrote in message
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Do you know what is the latin name of tree, which belongs this leaf?:

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6354/img8352bf9.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1034/img8351ub2.jpg


The two pressed leaf images above strongly resemble paper
mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/brpa1.htm
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/trees/brpa.html
http://www.invasive.org/browse/subth...b=5208&start=1
http://www.msstate.edu/org/arboretum/papyrifera.htm
etc.

The plant in your other image

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/205/img8329iy8.jpg

instead closely resembles white mulberry, _Morus alba_.

Are you sure the dry leaves are from the very same plant or
could they be from different individual trees?

The North American red mulberry, _Morus rubra_ more closely
resembles Broussonetia in its leaf shape [all of these species
are very variable in terms of lobing of the leaves], with similar
long-pointed lobe tips.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/c...s/MorusRu1.htm

One easy clue is the leaf arrangement: paper mulberry usually has
at least some of its leaves in opposite pairs, whereas the Morus
species all have strictly alternate phyllotaxy.

cheers