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What are people's experiences with red mulberries, american persimmons, pecans, and white walnut regarding dead limbs and falling branches? I'm trying to figure out a few large food producing trees that would be good to plant as the highest layer relatively closer to structures, while having mostly smaller trees right around buildings and more taller trees further away. Since they would be near a building site, assuming they wouldn't be planted in areas with much standing water. not sure about soil type, but I'm sure these things would make a difference in how common dead limbs are for different species..
Would any of those four species be good in that kind of role? Regardless of those particular species, which large trees have you found to have the fewest dead limbs that need to be removed or avoided putting things under throughout their lives?
 
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Hi Alex, I only have experience with pecans and mulberries, pecans got large enough that anything falling in a windstorm, for example, could be quite serious, but mulberries seem to "hold onto" their branches pretty well in my experience. I wouldn't be too concerned about them ever dropping much (besides fruit mess!).

My aunt had a pecan in her yard and it became enormous, I'm not sure mulberries would get that large.
 
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i have experience that backs up the general knowledge that persimmons strongly self-prune. they almost always drop branches that didn’t receive as much sun as others in the winter. this only gets dangerous when they get taller and have bigger diameter branches to shed, but it’s pretty much guaranteed after a certain point.
 
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