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Mulberry. I burned it for the first time this past winter. Not as hot as locust IMO, but better than your walnuts, cherrys, soft maples, etc. High mid-range in btus if I had to rate it.

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Mulberry

Mulberry. Very good burning wood once seasoned. Takes a couple years once CSS

Is mulberry a fast growing tree? The wide growth rings say so.

Clyde S. Dale said:

Mulberry. I burned it for the first time this past winter. Not as hot as locust IMO, but better than your walnuts, cherrys, soft maples, etc. High mid-range in btus if I had to rate it.

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Did you let it season a few years? Its hotter than beech and white oak,

I think your pictures are fantastic. I was gonna say Hedge because of the trees habit....you know..in a hedgerow.
Too many votes for Mulberry. Is it because Hedge is a brighter yellow?

mark cline said:

Is mulberry a fast growing tree? The wide growth rings say so.

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It looks like there is growth rings inside of the growth rings. Mulberry produces prolific fruit, I would imagine its slow growing in character with all fruit trees.
That tree is obviously multi stemmed, that isn't characteristic of mulberry, is it?

Applesister said:

That tree is obviously multi stemmed, that isn't characteristic of mulberry, is it?

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"All around the Mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel..."

mark cline said:

Is mulberry a fast growing tree? The wide growth rings say so.

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Mulberry grows like a weed. I have several young ones coming up in my yard. The bark on my older trees looks similar, but the color is more yellowish. I know there are a few different varieties, though.

Pennsyltucky Chris said:

Did you let it season a few years? Its hotter than beech and white oak,

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Yup, had been sitting on it for 2 years.

That is either Mulberry or Hedge. Both can grow as a multi-stemmed tree like the one in the picture.

Applesister said:

Too many votes for Mulberry. Is it because Hedge is a brighter yellow?

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All of the mulberry I have cut is really bright yellow when freshly cut or split, but quickly turns a deep brown when sitting in the sun. Quickly as in a day or two.

Makes some serious sparks when stirring the coals.

Definitely mulberry, now that I've seen the whole tree. Doesn't look anything like hedge.

Mulberry had been sold to the British at time of the nursery rhyme. Red mulberry was falsely represented to take the place of white mulberry. White mulberry spread thruout the silk routes of China and Japan. As the single solitary food of silk worms. The process of making silk was closely guarded.
Britain tried and failed but the fruit from Red mulberry became a staple.
There are many cultivars of Red and White and paper mulberry. Also our native Red mulberry. (Which is, apparently, the above mentioned 'bush')
The trees I've seen are cultivars of both White and Red. And there is alot of genetic altering that goes on with a tree with such a famous background.
I did a little study on Mulberry for a friend of mine who had a rather old/large Red growing in her front yard.
Its a tree species with quite a history.
Mulberry (white)was also listed in a book called: 50 Plants that Changed the Course of History. -By Bill Laws A fun read.
The tree in my friends yard has never been cut down.

Fun tree trivia....

Many of my mulberries are multi-trunk ones. All of mine were planted by birds as I imagine is typical for most of us. I will soon know a lot more about mulberry as a fire wood because all but one of mine are on this years list of trees to drop. That one happens to be in a good spot to shade my tool shed and is large enough to be a significant tree for the bird population here.