White fuzz on mulberry trunk (2 year tree)

[marten]

@Bigmike1116 I went through this same song and dance with EL and their not-Gerardi mulberry. I ordinarily like them as a nursery, but the tree that they are selling as Gerardi, isn’t.

In the post linked below, you can see pictures of my EL not-Gerardi and another (genuine) Gerardi from Lucille Whitman, along with following commentary from the more knowledgeable mulberry people:

Why Gerardi is a dwarf mulberry

@Shibumi and @hobilus and @Preston I also got two purported Girardis from EL earlier this year. I think they advertised them as being on their own roots from cuttings, so that would explain the lack of a graft. However, I also started to get suspicious that the internode length was too large, so I ordered two more Girardis from Whitman Farms for comparison. (Like @Shibumi , I cannot tolerate a non-dwarf tree in that particular location.) The following four photos are of the EL Girardi, which w…