HABIT: It is a tree which is 3.10 m tall. Bark is grey, shallowly furrowed. Branches are fine hairy. Winter buds are  reddish brown, ovoid, finely hairy. Stipules are lanceolate, 2.3-5 cm, densely covered with short pubescence. Petiole is  1.5- 5.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, irregularly lobed. Male catkins are pendulous, 2.3-5 cm, densely white hairy. Female catkins 1.2 cm, pubescent; peduncle 5.10 mm, pubescent. Male flowers are having calyx lobes pale green, broadly elliptic; filaments inflexed in bud; anthers 2-loculed, globose to reniform. Female flowers are sessile; calyx lobes ovoid, ± compressed, with marginal hairs; ovary sessile, ovoid; style absent; stigmas with mastoid like protuberance, branches divergent, papillose. Syncarp is red when immature, blackish-purple, purple or greenish white when mature, ovoid, ellipsoid or cylindrical.

CONSERVATION STATUS: Evaluated as 'Data Deficient' by IUCN.

MEDICINAL USES: Pharmacological studies have shown that mulberry may provide health benefits through immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects, as well as anti-nociceptive effects [30]. Inflammation is an immune defense mechanism, and in this process, a variety of chemical mediators, which are also underlying pain, are released, including cytokines.The species Morus (mulberry) presents a nutraceutical potential. It is therefore a promising alternative for medicinal products based on medicinal plants. 

(Rodrigues, E. L., Marcelino, G., Silva, G. T., Figueiredo, P. S., Garcez, W. S., Corsino, J., ... & Freitas, K. D. C. (2019). Nutraceutical and medicinal potential of the Morus species in metabolic dysfunctions. International journal of molecular sciences, 20(2), 301.)

ETHNOBOTANICAL USES: This widely grown plant has been in use by tribals of this country for ailments such as asthma, cough, bronchitis, edema, insomnia, wound healing, diabetes, influenza, eye infections and nosebleeds. Traditionally, the mulberry fruit has been used as a medicinal agent to nourish the blood, benefit the kidneys and treat weakness, fatigue, anemia and premature graying of hair. It is also used to treat urinary incontinence, tinnitus, dizziness and constipation in the elderly patient. The white mulberry has a long history of medicinal use in Chinese medicine; Almost all the parts of the plant are used as Medicine. It has been used in the indigenous system of medicine for cooling, acrid, purgative, diuretic, laxative, anthelmintic, brain tonic, antibacterial, hepatopathy properties. They are useful in vitiated condition of vata and pitta, burning sensation. 

(Devi, B., Sharma, N., Kumar, D., & Jeet, K. (2013). Morus alba Linn: A phytopharmacological review. Int J Pharm Pharm Sci, 5(2), 14-8.)