Morus cathayana

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderRosales
5. FamilyMoraceae

Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea

Small trees or shrubs; monoecious. Bark grayish white, smooth. Branchlets pubescent when young, glabrescent, conspicuously lenticellate. Stipules lanceolate. Petiole 2-5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade broadly ovate to ± orbicular, sometimes lobed, 8-20 × 6-13 cm, thick papery, abaxially densely white or yellowish gray pubescent, adaxially scabrous, sparsely covered with short hairs, and basally pubescent along veins, base cordate to truncate and ± oblique, margin shallowly to coarsely serrate or basally entire and apically shallowly serrate, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Male catkins 3-5 cm. Female catkins 1-3 cm. Male flowers: calyx lobes yellowish green, narrowly ovate, adaxially pubescent; stamens 4; pistillode small. Female flowers: calyx lobes obovate, apically pubescent; styles short; stigmas without mastoidlike protuberance, 2-branched, abaxially pubescent. Syncarp white, red, or dark purple when mature, cylindric, 2-3 cm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Jun.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

72

With media

60

Family

Moraceae

Collections

YPM, MICH, CM, MU, A, US

Recorded in

China, Japan

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Morus

Has use

food

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