Medium tree up to 50 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 2 feet; crown broadly rounded, with many short branchlets.

 Light brown, sometimes tinted with orange, divided into long, scaly plates.

 Slender, yellowish, smooth or sometimes hairy, more or less zigzag; leaf scars alternate, half‑round, elevated, with numerous bundle traces.

 Pointed, reddish‑brown, smooth, about 1/6 inch long.

 Alternate, simple; blades ovate, short‑pointed at the tip, rounded or cut straight across at the base, up to 5 inches long and nearly as broad, coarsely round‑toothed, sometimes 2‑lobed, sometimes 3‑lobed, sometimes deeply several‑lobed, sometimes unlobed, green and smooth to the touch on the upper surface, paler and smooth on the lower surface, except for a few hairs sometimes on the veins; leafstalks up to 2 inches long, smooth.

 Staminate and pistillate flowers borne separately, either on the same tree or on different trees, appearing as the leaves unfold, the Staminate crowded into narrow green clusters up to 2 inches long, the pistillate crowded into short, thick spikes up to I inch long.

 A cluster of tiny drupes up to 1% inches long, white or pinkish, more rarely red or purple, sweet, juicy. 

 Many places in park. 

 The White Mulberry lacks hairs on the lower surface of the leaves (except sometimes along the veins), thus differing from the Red Mulberry. 

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  Tree species facts from Robert Mohlenbrock , Forest Trees of Illinois , 1996