Is there any chance you can get a picture of the leaves, preferably with a twig showing whether they are opposite or alternate? I notice there are a few leaves on it. The unusual shape is because it has been pollarded, a way of pruning.
Name: greene Savannah, GA (Sunset 28) (Zone 8b) I have no use for internet bullies!
BeKind, just a thought. If the woman in the lower right of the photo is your friend or relative no problem, but if she was a stranger who happened to walk along when you snapped the photo, you might want to edit her out of the image.
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Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
Its a Mulberry tree - Morus alba. That's the way people prune them in California.
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I was thinking from the leaves that it might be a mulberry but they weren't really clear enough. Why do they pollard mulberries in California, and is it only mulberries that are grown like that there?
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
I don't know. Seems criminal to me. Only Mulberries get this treatment.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
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Webmaster: osnnv.org
They also pollard London Plane trees - Platanus x acerifolia, and I've seen it done to Myoporum laetum... and uninformed "gardener/tree" guys will do it to just about anything.
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