Moraceae
Moraceae | |
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Panama Rubber Tree (Castilla elastica) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Phylum: | Magnoliophyta |
Class: | Magnoliopsida |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Moraceae (Dumort., 1829) Gaudich., in Trinius, 1835, nom. cons. |
Genera | |
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Moraceae are often called the mulberry family or fig family, is a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species. Included are well-known plants such as the fig, banyan, breadfruit, mulberry, and osage-orange.