1. 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
   "Traditional Pacific islanders made cloth from Broussonetia papyrifera bark";
   - paper mulberry

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree

Part of: Broussonetia, genus Broussonetia

Encyclopedia: Broussonetia papyrifera