page_title: Morus mongolica
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Morus mongolica / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photograph of a dried [Morus mongolica] specimen, provided by the University of Vienna's Herbarium WU. The photograph includes the information about the specimen in the lower right corner.
context_page_description: Morus mongolica, also described as Morus alba var. mongolica, is a woody plant native to mountain forests in Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan. Common names for Morus mongolica include Mongolian mulberry, meng sang, and ilama by native people in the namesake region of Mongolia. Similar to Morus notabilis, Morus mongolica is an uncultivated mulberry.
context_section_description: Morus mongolica is a perennial woody tree.  Its native range is the mountains of Mongolia, China, Korea, and Japan. The mature Morus mongolica grows to about 8 meters in height (about 26 feet).  The leaves of the tree are palmate, with mature dimensions ranging from 8 cm-15 cm in length and 5 cm to 8 cm in width.
  The flowers occur in inflorescences, both male and female.  The male inflorescences are about 3–4 cm long and 7 mm wide, whereas the female inflorescences are about 2 cm long and 7mm wide; both of which have peduncles of about 1-1.5 cm.  Both the male and the female flowers are in groups of fours: four sepals, four petals, four stamen (for male flowers) and four carpels (for female flowers). The tree blooms from March to April and fruits in April to May.
  Fruits are aggregate, and are dull red to black in color.  Each cluster is about 1–3 cm long with a 1 cm diameter, with the individual drupelets about 3mm in diameter.
caption: Morus mongolica (dried) University of Vienna Institute for Botany Herbarium 3
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