Morus indicaL.

WFO wfo-0000447884 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Morus indica, photographed by 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
fig. a 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202128221
Morus indica, photographed by mami_t_t
fig. b mami_t_t, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200449248
Morus indica, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. c WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196018901
Morus indica, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. d Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195783598
Morus indica, photographed by 雲一百香果
fig. e 雲一百香果, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188665946
Morus indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204368373
Morus indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190245920
Morus indica, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190242090

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Morus indica is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Nansei-shoto, Sakhalin, Taiwan, Tibet, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, South China Sea, Thailand, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanManchuriaSakhalinTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalPhilippinesThailandVietnam KoreaNansei-shotoAndaman Is.South China Sea
Native distribution of Morus indica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Manchuria CHM
Nansei-shoto NNS
Sakhalin SAK
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
South China Sea SCS
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 87 in flower of 352 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Morus indica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 87 of 352 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 36 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Morus acidosa Griff.
  • Morus alba var. nigriformis Bureau
  • Morus alba var. stylosa Bureau
  • Morus amamiana Nakai
  • Morus arabica (Bureau) Koidz.
  • Morus australis Poir.
  • Morus australis var. hachijoensis (Hotta) Kitam.
  • Morus australis var. hastifolia (Z.Y.Cao) Z.Y.Cao
  • Morus australis var. incisa C.Y.Wu
  • Morus australis var. inusitata (Lévl.) C.Y.Wu
  • Morus australis var. linearipartita Z.Y.Cao
  • Morus australis var. oblongifolia Z.Y.Cao
  • Morus bombycis Koidz.
  • Morus bombycis var. angustifolia Koidz.
  • Morus bombycis var. bifida Koidz.
  • Morus bombycis var. flexuosa Hotta
  • Morus bombycis var. ikuchuensis Hotta
  • Morus bombycis var. longistyla Koidz.
  • Morus bombycis var. mikamiana Hotta
  • Morus bombycis var. saishuensis Hotta
  • Morus bombycis var. tiliifolia Koidz.
  • Morus cashmeriana Royle
  • Morus caudatifolia Koidz.
  • Morus cavaleriei H.Lév.

and 12 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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