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Old 01-07-2011, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Doug Freyburger View Post
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.
Blackberry = Rosaceae (rose family)
Mulberry = Moraceae (fig family)
Both are within the order of Rosids, but it still seems implausible to graft at such distance of relation.