Broussonetia papyrifera.

Broussonetia papyrifera Vent. Urticaceae. Paper Mulberry. Tapa-Cloth Tree.

A tree of the islands of the Pacific, China and Japan. It is cultivated for the inner bark which is used for making a paper as well as textile fabrics. The fleshy part of the compound fruit is saccharine and edible.

Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.