cactus as a tree?

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/10/2012 6:49 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
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> On 3/10/2012 6:06 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Eric Nielsen<ericbarnak at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>> the mulberry bush
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>> Grows there a mulberry that's in any way bush-like and not what any
>> random person would immediately identify as a "tree"? IMO, the
>> mulberries from Granddad's tree were absolutely inedible - well, maybe
>> not "absolutely," since there are millions of people who willingly eat
>> rhubarb. So, perhaps the edible variety of mulberry does grow on
>> bushes.
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> At the house we moved away from there were several pretty large mulberry
> trees.  They are weeds (like ash trees in California) that take over
> every where they are allowed to, and while I could never see what the
> big deal was (the null taste?) the deer and the birds love them and so
> the seeds are distributed EVERYWHERE.  The people we bought that place
> from thought the Mulberry Trees were a major plus.  Maybe they need a
> lot of sugar or something.  I would not call then "inedible" but I will
> say I never got hungry enough.

I meant to say "And I do like rhubarb.

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> But even the little seedlings look like trees.
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