Accession Data:
Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) Venten.
- Common Name: Paper Mulberry
- Family: Moraceae Link
- Country of Origin: E. Asia - China. Occasionally naturalized in S.E. Europe
- Habitat: Thickets, mountain ravines and forests.
- Description: The species is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The staminate inflorescence is a catkin up to 8 centimeters long with fuzzy male flowers. The pistillate inflorescence is a spherical head up to about 2 centimeters wide with greenish female flowers trailing long styles.5 This accession is a pistillate (female) specimen.
- Uses: The inner bark of this plant was beaten and the principal ingredient in making tapa cloth or kapa in ancient Polynesia. You can watch a short video here.
- Culture: Moist soil, typically pruned to maintain as a small shrub although plant can attain 50' in the wild.
- USDA Zone: 7a-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199000013
- Source: Hurov's (seed)
- Accession Date: 06-20-1988
- Bench: 1206 - AUS:East Bench NN
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 3 confirmed on 02-26-2025
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Rosales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Moraceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe: Moreae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- Fiber Plants
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- Dioecious species in the EEB Greenhouse Collection
- Scavenger Hunt - Grades 9-12 (generic)
- Domesticated Plants of Austronesia
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / Hainan / China North-Central / China Southeast / Xinjiang / Korea / Taiwan / India / Cambodia / Laos / Myanmar / Thailand / Vietnam / Malaya
References (external):
- Broussonetia papyrifera at Plants For A Future. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
- Wauke at Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
- Broussonetia papyrifera at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
- Paper Mulberry at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) Forest & Kim Starr [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
data regenerated on Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:54:05 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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W/C = Wild Collected
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= accession added within past 90 days