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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Morus indica - L.
Family
Moraceae
Common Name
Chhoti Shehtut, Tut, Red Mulberry
Habit
Large shrub or tree
Synonym
Morus australis Poir.
Habitat
Wild
Color Of Flower
White
Key Characters
Leaves caudate-acuminate, styles long, connate bellow, hairy.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Monochlamydae
 
Series :
Unisexuales
 
Order :
Plant Description

Small trees or large deciduous shrubs; leaves ovate, caudate-acuminate at apex, rounded to semicordate at base, sharply serrate, often deeply lobed, pubescent or puberulous; male flowers in lax spikes; tepals-4, obovate, 2 inner flat or concave, outer ones more or less keeled; stamens-4, inflexed in bud, pistallode turbinate; female spikes short; sepals-4, imbricate, succulent in fruit; ovary stright, 1-celled, exserted, ovule solitary, pendulous, styles long, hairy, connate below; fruits ovoid or subglobose, red when ripe.

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