white mulberry Moraceae Morus alba

Leaf:Alternate, simple, roughly orbicular in shape, 3 to 6 inches long with a serrate margin, often irregularly lobed, smooth above.
Flower:Species is usually dioecious; small, green catkins, male flowers narrow, 1 to 2 inches long; female flowers plump, 1 inch long.
Fruit:Resembling blackberries, cylindrical, 1 to 1 1/4 inch long, fleshy multiple of drupes, pale pink to dark red, not as juicy as red mulberry, maturing in late summer.
Twig:Slender, zigzag, gray to orange-brown, smooth, buds reddish brown with numerous scales, scales often lack dark edges, leaf scar sunken oval, broken twigs display silvery white filaments.
Bark:Orange-brown with lenticels when young, becoming gray with long narrow irregular ridges.
Form:A small tree up to 40 feet tall, branches low and develops a wide spreading crown

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