{"id":1283321,"date":"2011-03-14T05:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-22T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:30:22","slug":"morus-serrata","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/morus-serrata\/","title":{"rendered":"Morus serrata"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Morus serrata<\/i> Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. 1832 3: 596 1832<\/i>. (syn: Morus<\/i> alba<\/i> var. serrata<\/i> (Roxb.) Bureau<\/span><\/a>; Morus<\/i> gyirongensis<\/i> S.S. Chang<\/span><\/a>; Morus<\/i> pabularia<\/i> Decne.<\/span><\/a>; Morus vicorum<\/i> Jacq.);<\/div>\n
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Morus serrata<\/i> Roxb.
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Nepali Names :\u00a0\u0915\u093e\u0932\u094b \u0915\u093e\u092b\u0932 Kaalo Kaafal \/ \u0915\u093f\u092e\u094d\u092c\u0941 Kimbu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Morus for id from Nauradhar area:: NS March 2020-03<\/a> : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (8<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Please help to find specific id of this wild tree<\/span> recorded from near Nauradhar, Himachal Pradesh..<\/span><\/div>\n
According to Flora Simlensis, it qualifies well for Morus serrata<\/i> Roxb.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Morus indica<\/i> L. is now treated as synonym of Morus alba<\/i><\/b> L. There are atleast three other species cultivated in North India: M. macroura<\/b><\/i> (syn: M. laevigata<\/i>) with catkins longer than 5 cm, rest having catkins shorter than 5 cm with biserrate leaves having acuminate-caudate lobes in M. serrata<\/i>,<\/span> uniserrate leaves lobes not caudate in rest two, of which M. nigra<\/i> has leaves pubescent all over the lower surface including veinlets and styles densely white hairy. M. alba<\/i> has l<\/span>eaves pubescent only on the midrib and principal veins of lower surface, secondary and ultimate veinlets glabrous, styles glabrous.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I had the idea that Morus alba<\/i> is the white mulberry, the woods used for hockey stick, whereas M indica<\/i> (Syn. M. autralis, M.acidosa<\/i> etc.)
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Plants of M. alba<\/i> and M. indica<\/i> do show some differences. Style-arms are glabrous, short and free up to the base, fruit red or white when mature\u00a0in M. alba<\/i>. In M. indica<\/i> style-arms are hairy, long, united for one fourth of length and fruit black when ripe, but the differences are not sufficient to to merit recognition as distinct species. \u00a0 My information is based on GRIN database, which is generally considered as reliable. Both GRIN as well as Eflora of Pakistan treat M. indica<\/i> as synonym of M. alba<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Thought of adding an interesting fact of Himalayan Mulberry: Morus serrata<\/i> Roxb.<\/span>\u00a0There is one tree dating back to\u00a0 8th century A.D. in Garhwal, Joshimath. at\u00a01900 metres. which is more than 1200 years old, as\u00a0informed in the book ‘ The book of Indian trees’ by K.C. Sahni.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anyone who visits the valley of flowers\u00a0gets to hear of\u00a0it\u00a0on the way. There was a lead article on this tree\u00a0by Peter Smetacek on 20 th May 2007,\u00a0TOI. Which is titled “A tree created India”, where in he also mentions that it is believed to be the oldest tree in India. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks for interesting information … I wish to arrange a visit to this tree with the Traditional Healers having expertise in use of <\/span>Morus<\/i> as medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I tried to get a photo of the tree on the web. I had no luck. Can you help?<\/p>\n

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Here are some images of <\/span>Morus alba<\/i> from Ecoport
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It is really surprising that why Ecoport has kept these valuable pictures away from common people as these are not searchable through search engines.<\/p>\n

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To share 240810 aET – efloraofindia | Google Groups<\/span><\/a>\u00a0:\u00a02 images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I took this Plant picture in Joshimath. Uttarakhand<\/span>
\nDate\/Time-15.7.10 \u00a0 \u00a0 —-10.32 a.m.
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and 2500 years vidyaman, can someone explain to me what it wants to say exactly?<\/p>\n

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I am spellbound by these images, isn’t this the famous Mulberry tree of Joshimath? If it is these are the first real images of this tree on ITP. … would you have \u00a0any more images, any more info. about \u00a0the tree. Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Although Wikipedia mentions Morus nigra<\/em> as one of the trees known as Kalpvriksh, size of tree (up to 20 m tall in M. serrata<\/em>, less than 10 m in M. nigra<\/em>) and long acuminate leaves seen in images clearly points to M. serrata<\/em> as ID of this tree<\/p>\n

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To share 240810 a ET – efloraofindia | Google Groups<\/span><\/a>\u00a0: 4 images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What I came to know about the Joshimath is Sankracharya from Kerala came to this place to spread Hinduism.
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This I suppose ie none else than Morus alba<\/i>, a very unusual tree to be several hundred years old.<\/div>\n
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What are the chances of it being a Broussonetia<\/i>, just a thought, its too big to be a Morus alba<\/i> but then if its that old then likely it could get that big.<\/p>\n

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Thanks a lot for the additional pictures … I wonder how the age was determined. In an earlier discussion of this tree I have quoted from an article which appeared in TOI about this tree. ‘The book of Indian trees’ by K.C. Sahni mentions the age of this tree as 1200 years! But really great to see the actual pictures. Thanks again.<\/div>\n
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I think there are more than one tree. May be both Broussonetia<\/i> and Morus<\/i> are there. Leaves in second pic is not glabrous like that in first<\/p>\n

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Age can be determined easily by the annual growth rings in the trunk.<\/p>\n

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Although Wikipedia mentions Morus nigra<\/em> as one of the trees known as Kalpvriksh, size of tree (up to 20 m tall in M. serrata<\/em>, less than 10 m in M. nigra<\/em>) and long acuminate leaves seen in images clearly points to M. serrata<\/em> as ID of this tree<\/p>\n

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References: <\/span>Catalogue of Life<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Tropicos<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morus serrata Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. 1832 3: 596 1832. (syn: Morus alba var. serrata (Roxb.) Bureau; Morus gyirongensis S.S. Chang; Morus pabularia Decne.; Morus vicorum Jacq.); . S-Tibet, NW-India, Nepal, Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), N-Pakistan (Baluchistan, Swat, Hazara, Murree) as per Catalogue of Life; . Re: Morus serrata…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6648],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1283321","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-morus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1283321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1283321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1283321"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1283321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}