broussonetia papyrifera

broussonetia papyrifera

noun
shrubby Asiatic tree having bark (tapa) that resembles cloth; grown as a shade tree in Europe and America; male flowers are pendulous catkins and female are urn-shaped followed by small orange-red aggregate berries [syn: paper mulberry
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