Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Morus alba L.

名稱:
桑

Common Name:
White mulberry

俗名:
桑，桑樹

Family Name:
Moraceae

科屬:
桑科

Habit:
Deciduous tree

習性:
落葉喬木

Origin Name:

Native; China.

原產地:

原生；中國。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 10m tall

高度:
可高達10米

Stems:
Grey

莖:
灰色

Leaf:

Ovate to broadly ovate, papery, alternate. Apex acute, acuminate or obtuse. Base rounded to slightly cordate, often slightly oblique. Margin coarsely serrate. Leaf blades sometimes irregularly lobed. Basal veins 3 to 5. Bright green and glossy adaxially.

葉:

卵形至寬卵形，紙質，互生。葉尖急尖、漸尖或圓鈍，葉基圓形至淺心形，常稍偏斜，葉緣有粗鋸齒。葉片有時不規則分裂。基出脈3至5條。葉面鮮綠色、有光澤。

Flower:

• Unisexual, axillary. Male inflorescences drooping, densely white villose. Female inflorescence shaped as a short spike. Male perianth lobes pale green, broadly elliptic.
• Flowering: Feb - Aug

花:

• 單性花，腋生。雄花序下垂，密被白色柔毛。雌花序短穗狀。雄花花被裂片淡綠色，寬橢圓形。
• 花期: 2 - 8月

Fruit:

• Multiple fruit (Syncarps) axillary, ovoid-ellipsoid, ovoid to cylindrical, formed by many achenes, peduncled. Persistent perianth fleshy and juicy. Red to blackish purple when mature, sometimes white.
• Fruiting: Feb - Aug

果實:

• 聚花果腋生，卵狀橢圓體、卵球體至圓柱體，由多數瘦果組成，具柄。宿存花被肉質、多汁。成熟時紅色至黑紫色，有時白色。
• 果期: 2 - 8月