Black Mulberry
Scientific name: Morus nigra L.
Diagnostic features
Upright tree to 14m.
Leaves 6-20cm, usually simple, sometimes palmately lobed, cordate at base, pubescent.
Fruiting heads raspberry-like, sessile, red when mature.
Chromosome number: (2n=308).
Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; waste ground and walls, bird-sown from cultivated trees.
Distribution
Naturalized by Thames in Middlesex, frequently grown in parks and seedlings rarely found in scattered localities; Central Asia.
This species is keyed out at Page 1671: Moraceae, Morus & other families in the Text Key. |
