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Family: Moraceae	Genus: Morus	Species: Morus alba Linn.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Morus serrata Wall., Morus arabica Koidz., Morus rubra Lour., Morus acidosa Griff.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Chinni, Tutri,Shahtoot, Shatooth	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Silkworm mulberry,White mulberry,Mulberry	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Shahtoot	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Upto 1500 m	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Syncarp red when immature, blackish purple, purple, or greenish white when mature, ovoid, ellipsoid, or cylindric
Habitat	Deciduous forests and cultivated.	Bark Type	Rugged
Distribution	Afghanistan and North West Asia	Bark Details	Bark gray, shallowly furrowed. Branches finely hairy.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Patiala-ki-Rao Reserved Forest, Manimajara and Daria, Sector 1, Sector 3, Sector 10, Sector 11, Sector 17, Sector 26, Sector 27, Sector 29, Sector 34, Sector 39, Sector 42, Sector 45, Sector 47, Sector 51	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Shrubs or trees, 3-10 m tall. Bark gray, shallowly furrowed. Branches finely hairy. Winter buds reddish brown, ovoid, finely hairy. Stipules lanceolate, 2-3.5 cm, densely covered with short pubescence. Petiole 1.5-5.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, irregularly lobed, 5-30 × 5-12 cm, abaxially sparsely pubescent along midvein or in tufts in axil of midvein and primary lateral veins, adaxially bright green and glabrous, base rounded to ± cordate, margin coarsely serrate to crenate, apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse. Male catkins pendulous, 2-3.5 cm, densely white hairy. Female catkins 1-2 cm, pubescent; peduncle 5-10 mm, pubescent. Male flowers: calyx lobes pale green, broadly elliptic; filaments inflexed in bud; anthers 2-loculed, globose to reniform. Female flowers: sessile; calyx lobes ovoid, ± compressed, with marginal hairs; ovary sessile, ovoid; style absent; stigmas with mastoidlike protuberance, branches divergent, papillose. Syncarp red when immature, blackish purple, purple, or greenish white when mature, ovoid, ellipsoid, or cylindrical.	Leaf Details	Leaves ovate or ovate-cordate, 5-15 x 3-8 cm long, base cordate to rounded, margin often lobed toothed or irregularly lobed, apex acuminate, obtuse or acute, membranous, lateral veins 3-8 on either side of midvein, petiole 2-6 cm, stipules lanceolate.

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