The fruit is a 5 cm long fleshy, juicy, edible but not very tasty berry that consists in a syncarp of achenes enclosed in succulent sepals. The trees are monoecious or dioecious without buttresses ( Orwa et al., 2009). The flowers are unisexual inconspicuous, greenish in colour, looking like catkins (male flowers) or spikes (female flowers). ![]() The inflorescence is axillary and pendulous. They can be simple or compound (3-5 lobed) even on the same tree, dentate, palmately veined, coriaceous and caducous. The leaves are light green in colour, alternate, petiolate, cordate at their base and very variable in shape. The bark is vertically fissured, dark greyish-brown in colour, exuding a white or yellowish latex. Its bole is straight, cylindrical without buttresses and up to 1.8 m in girth. White mulberry can have a pyramidal shape or have a drooping habit. ![]() It has a dense spreading crown, generally wider than the height of the tree. ![]() Morus alba is a fast growing, deciduous, medium-sized tree that grows to a height of 25-35 m. While it is traditionally used as fodder for silkworms, white mulberry provides a highly palatable forage suitable for most farm animals ( Martin et al., 2017). White mulberry ( Morus alba L.) is a high-yielding pantropical and subtropical medium-sized tree.
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