Taxon: Morus alba L.

Common names:

• 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
  
• amoreira-branca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• mora   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• moral blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• morera blanca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental; revegetator   (fide Econ Pl Aust; F USSR; Krussmann; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• 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: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

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

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

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

• AFRICA
  Africa [tropical & s.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  South America [s.]

• widely cultivated in temperate regions

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• 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. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. (F Manshur)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):362.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup) 217.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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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. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Morus alba var. constantinopolitana Loudon
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Morus alba var. multicaulis (Perr.) Loudon
  
• (=) Morus alba f. tatarica Ser.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Morus indica L.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Morus multicaulis Perr.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Morus alba L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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