EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: MORAL
• Preferred name: Morus alba
• Authority: Linnaeus

Native to China, where it has been cultivated since ancient times as the food plant of the silkworm. Widely planted in other Asian countries and in southern Europe since the early Middle Ages, and also in parts of USA. With the fall in silk production in the XXth century, plantations outside China have been abandoned, and only traces remain. Also  grown as an ornamental tree in parks and gardens worldwide.