i am sure someone will have an answer

but if you want to learn a lot more about growing fruit.. chime in at the fruit forum ... a lot of those experts.. i have never seen in this forum ... and fruit peeps do things that i consider really weird .. lol ...

i think you mystery plant.. in your pix is a tulip poplar.. which is neither a tulip.. nor a poplar ...

ken

Thank you Ken. I will check out the fruit forum.

And my mystery tree did turn out to be the tulip tree (I don't remember the botanical name right now). I posted on another forum and someone gave me it's latin name. It feels good to have a mystery solved :)