cactus as a tree?

[Eric Nielsen]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:

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> 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>
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> >>> 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.
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> 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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