ID wanted on 'fretworked' shrub
 

In a botanical garden in Argentina there is a shrub with leaves of a
striking appearance. It looks as if a bug has been eating large chunks
out of the edges but, as the photo shows, this is how the leaves grow.

See

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~richwrig/leaf.jpg

Can anybody identify this shrub?

ID wanted on 'fretworked' shrub
 

In a botanical garden in Argentina there is a shrub with leaves of a
striking appearance. It looks as if a bug has been eating large chunks
out of the edges but, as the photo shows, this is how the leaves grow.

See

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~richwrig/leaf.jpg

Can anybody identify this shrub?
BRBR

It looks a lot like Broussonetia papyrifera, in Moraceae. Likely very juvenile
foliage.

ID wanted on 'fretworked' shrub
 

Young mulberry (_Morus__) plants can have leaves that look like this.

M. Reed

Richard Wright wrote:

In a botanical garden in Argentina there is a shrub with leaves of a
striking appearance. It looks as if a bug has been eating large chunks
out of the edges but, as the photo shows, this is how the leaves grow.

See

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~richwrig/leaf.jpg

Can anybody identify this shrub?

ID wanted on 'fretworked' shrub
 

Thanks, for that. Your suggestion led me to

http://www.bio.ilstu.edu/armstrong/s...per/paper1.htm

Obviously spot on.


On 02 May 2003 14:23:56 GMT, (MMMavocado) wrote:


In a botanical garden in Argentina there is a shrub with leaves of a
striking appearance. It looks as if a bug has been eating large chunks
out of the edges but, as the photo shows, this is how the leaves grow.

See

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~richwrig/leaf.jpg

Can anybody identify this shrub?
BRBR

It looks a lot like Broussonetia papyrifera, in Moraceae. Likely very juvenile
foliage.