cactus as a tree?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:
> Any plant bigger than me is a tree.

And then there's the mulberry "bush" of nursery-rhyme fame. I've been
puzzled by this one since childhood. My grandfather had a mini-orchard
in which grew a mulberry plant that, IMO, *anyone* would call a
"tree." And, in California, a tree called a "fruitless mulberry"  - a
plant *smaller* than my grandfather's mulberry whatever - is a common
feature of people's yards.

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