Trees or shrubs, 3-10 m high or higher, DBH up to 50 cm, bark thick, gray, with irregular shallow longitudinal cracks; Winter buds are reddish brown, ovate, with bud scales arranged in tile like manner, grayish brown, with fine hairs; Branchlets have fine hairs.

Leaves ovate or broadly ovate, 5-15 cm long and 5-12 cm wide, acute, acuminate or obtuse at the apex, rounded to shallow heart-shaped at the base, coarsely obtuse serrations at the edges, sometimes the leaves are divided into various types, bright green on the surface, hairless, sparsely hairy along the veins on the back, and tufted hairs at the vein axils; Petiole 1.5-5.5 cm long, pilose; Stipules lanceolate, caducous, densely hirsute outside.

Mulberry

Flowers unisexual, axillary or born in the axil of bud scales, born at the same time with leaves; Male inflorescences pendulous, 2-3.5 cm long, densely white pilose, male flowers. Perianth segments are wide oval, light green. Filaments inflexed in bud, anthers 2-locular, globose to reniform, longitudinally split; The female inflorescence is 1-2 cm long, hairy, the total pedicel is 5-10 mm long, pilose, the female flower is sessile, the perianth is obovate, the top is blunt, the outside and the edge are hairy, the ovary is tightly held on both sides, without style, the stigma is 2-lobed, and the inner surface has papillary processes.

Mulberry

The cymose is ovoid oval, 1-2.5 cm long, red or dark purple when mature. Flowering from April to May, fruiting from May to August