Taxon: Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Vent.

Common names:

• paper-mulberry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• tapa-cloth-tree   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• gou shu   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mûrier à papier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Papiermaulbeerbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• amoreira-do-papel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• moral de la China   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• morera de papel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• papelero   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pappersmullbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: fiber   (wood pulp for paper fide F Japan; F ChinaEng)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; F ChinaEng)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
  

More:

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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang [s.e.], Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Indochina; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan [Ryukus]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Sumatra; New Guinea; Philippines
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Austral Islands, Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago; Pitcairn

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina

• also cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (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).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Campbell, F. T., ed. 1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Florence, J. 1997–. Flore de la Polynésie française.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [lists as B. papyrifera (L.) L'Hér.].
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:86.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• 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.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [lists as B. papyrifera (L.) L'Hér. ex Vent.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Broussonetia papyrifera.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Broussonetia papyrifera.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Broussonetia papyrifera.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Morus papyrifera L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Papyrius papyrifera (L.) Kuntze
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Vent.:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• 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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