Taxon: Morus alba L.

Common names:

• Russian mulberry   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• silkworm mulberry   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• white mulberry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• gewone moerbei   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• witmoerbei   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• sang   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mûrier blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• weißer Maulbeerbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• kuwa   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• amoreira-branca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• šelkovica belaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• mora   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• moral blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• morera blanca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vitt mullbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide F USSR, Invasive Pl Spec, Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Invertebrate food: silkworms   (fide F USSR; F Eur ed2; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):362. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China [c. & n.]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Malesia: Borneo; Indonesia - Celebes, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas; New Guinea; Philippines
• EUROPE
  Europe [s.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America [s.]

• widely cultivated in temperate regions

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:110.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):362.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 217.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Morus alba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Morus alba.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Morus alba.

Synonyms:

• (=) Morus alba var. constantinopolitana Loudon
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Morus alba var. multicaulis (Perr.) Loudon
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Morus alba f. tatarica Ser.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Morus multicaulis Perr.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Morus alba L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Morus alba cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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