Knowra Moraceae Moraceae Moraceae is a family of flowering plants that includes figs, mulberries, breadfruit, and jackfruit. Many members produce milky latex and bear small flowers.
Rosales : Rosales is an order of flowering plants that includes Moraceae, roses, elms, and nettles. Moraceae belongs to this order alongside several families with diverse flowers and growth forms.
Breadfruit : Breadfruit is the starchy fruit of Artocarpus altilis, a tropical tree native to the Indo-Pacific. It is a major cultivated food crop from the family’s genus Artocarpus.
Common fig : The common fig is Ficus carica, a tree cultivated for its edible fruit. It is a familiar domesticated fig within the family’s diverse Ficus genus.
Carl Linnaeus : Carl Linnaeus was an eighteenth-century Swedish botanist who established the modern system of binomial nomenclature. His botanical classification established the naming framework used for Moraceae.
Ficus : Ficus is a genus of trees, shrubs, and vines that includes figs and banyans. It is the family’s largest genus and contains its best-known species.
Jackfruit : Jackfruit is the large edible fruit of Artocarpus heterophyllus, a tropical tree native to South Asia. It is a widely used food from another cultivated Artocarpus species.
Osage orange : Osage orange is Maclura pomifera, a North American tree with large, rough, spherical fruit. This Moraceae species illustrates the family’s less familiar temperate members.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck : Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a French naturalist who developed early evolutionary ideas and contributed to plant taxonomy. He published the family name Moraceae in botanical classification.
Mulberry : Mulberries are fruits produced by trees in the genus Morus. Morus is another familiar genus within Moraceae, distinct from Ficus.
Paper mulberry : Paper mulberry is Broussonetia papyrifera, a tree whose bark has long been used to make paper and cloth. Its bark supports traditional fiber production across parts of Asia and the Pacific.
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