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Taxon:  Morus nigra L.



Summary
Genus:
Morus
Family:
Moraceae
Tribe:
Moreae
Nomen number:
24619
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:986. 1753
Verified:
08/20/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
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  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Morus+nigra&quantity=1
  6. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  7. Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. Edible Horticultural Crops. 1982 Note: Academic Press
  8. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  9. Henderson, L. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. 2001
  10. Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 1974-1989
  11. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  12. Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984
  13. Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984
  14. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  15. Migahid, A. M. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. 1988-1990
  16. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  17. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  18. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  19. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  20. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966-
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  22. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
  23. Whittemore, A. T. 2006. Notes on southwestern Moraceae. Sida 22:769-775. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8113#/summary
  24. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
black mulberry –
Afrikaans
swartmoerbei –
Arabic
tert –
French
mûrier noir –
German
schwarzer Maulbeerbaum –
Japanese Rōmaji
kuromi-guwa –
Portuguese
amoreira-negra –
Spanish
moral negro –
morera negra –
Swedish
svart mullbär –
Transcribed Chinese
hei sang –
Transliterated Russian
šelkovica černaja –
Distribution
Cultivated (widely cult.)
Naturalized
Asia-Temperate
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.), Pakistan
Europe
  • REGION: Europe (s.)
Other (probably native in s.w. Asia)
Economic Uses
Human food
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2) –


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