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Black mulberry or African mulberry
Afromorus mesozygia
About
Afromorus mesozygia, known as black mulberry or African mulberry, is the only species in the genus Afromorus. The plant is a small- to medium-sized forest tree of Tropical Africa. Its leaves and fruit provide food for the mantled guereza, a colobus monkey native to much of Tropical Africa, and for the common chimpanzee of West and Central Africa. It is also a commercial hardwood.
- Family
- Moraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Afromorus mesozygia
- Slug
- afromorus-mesozygia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Afromorus
- Species
- mesozygia
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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