- Family : MORACEAE
(Mulberry Or Fig Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Moraceae
- Synonym(s) : Morus acidosa Griff.; Morus alba var. cuspidata Bureau; Morus alba var. japonica Moretti; Morus alba var. latifolia (Poir.) Moretti; Morus alba var. stylosa Bureau; Morus amamiana Nakai; Morus alba var. indica (L.) Bureau
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Morus indica L.
- Common name : Mulberry
- Vernacular name :
- Shehtoot (Hindi)
- Hippu neerale, Kamblihula gida, Reshime gida (Kannada)
- Habit : Tree
- Comments / notes : Silk worms are feed on leaves; Wood yellowish and valuable; Fruits are edible.
- Key identification features : Medium sized, deciduous trees; bark brownish, often exude milky latex; Leaves ovate, sharply serrate, membranous, scaberulous, truncate or cordate at base; Flowers in spikes, appear with young leaves; tepals obovate, hairy; Fruits subglobose, blackish.
- Flower, Fruit : February- July
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Japan, Korea, Kuril Islands, Laos, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Sakhalin, South China Sea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Japan, Korea, Kuril Islands, Laos, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Sakhalin, South China Sea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 406
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Morus indica. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.
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