Landscape Plants

Approximately 12 species of deciduous, short-lived, fast growing trees and shrubs, often producing a milky sap (latex) when cut.  Leaves alternate, simple, unlobed to 2-5 lobed, short petiole, turning yellow in fall.  Flowers in unisexual clusters (catkins), male flowers deeply 4-parted, female flowers with a 4-part floral envelope (perianth), ovaries attached without a supporting stalk (sessile).  Fruit somewhat resembling that of a raspberry, green then orange or white and red and purple.  Native to North America and southern Europe to Japan and the lowland tropics of central Africa.
Morus: Latin name for the black mulberry Morus nigra.