I have a fairly small yard in south Louisiana and this paper mulberry just popped up this spring. I notice stands of these all over Baton Rouge and they seem insanely invasive and noxious. So I want to make sure I get rid of this correctly. Most of the advice I see is to cut down the tree form of this and then treat the stump with some sort of herbicide. But this guy isn’t really big enough to have a stump yet. So should I paint the leaves? Chop it down with shears and paint the tiny stem? Pull it from the root?
P.S. I’m in a fairly new development and there are no mature trees nearby.
P.P.S. Is this even paper mulberry? Could it be something else?
u/GinkgoAutomatic — 9 days ago