MORACEAE, Mulberry Family

Small trees: sap milky; leaves alternate, simple, stipuled; flowers bypogynous, monosporangiate; calyx 4-parted; corolla none; stamens 4; carpels 2, united; ovary usually 1-Ioculed, buried in or surrounded by the fleshy calyx, one carpel usually failing to develop; carpellate ament becoming a multiple fruit.

Moraceae