Atlas dřevin

White Mulberry

Morus alba

Moraceae

Tree and shrub up to 17 m tall with gray-brown lengthwise grooved bark. Shoots thin, round, greenish to brownish with narrow elliptic lenticels. Leaf-scars large, circular, with circularly arranged leaf marksmarks. Leaf blade is widely elliptical to round, thin, lobate. Edge denticulate. Fruits are so-called mulberries - achenes in a cylindrical infructescence created from fleshy influorescens, they are 1 to 2 cm long, ripe fruit violet red, edible. Shoots: Shoots are thin, round, greenish or brownish with narrow elliptic lenticels. Natural range: East Asia: China and Korea; in our area introduced.

Buds

Buds are small, egg-shaped, positioned on the pad of leaves. The leaf scarves are big, ovate with leaf scars formed in circle.

Leaves

Leaves are simple; very variable in shape. The lamina is widely elliptic to circular, thin; lobate to deeply rugged; at the basis heart-shaped. The margin is crenated-serrated. Petioles are thin; usually longer than 1/5 of the lamina length.

Fruits

So-called mulberries - achenes in a cylindrical infructescence created from fleshy influorescens, they are 1 to 2 cm long, ripe fruit violet red, edible.