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Paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera

The fruit can be eaten raw. The fruit comprises a ball about 1.5cm in diameter with numerous small edible fruits protruding - there is not much edible flesh but it has a lovely flavour. Prolonged ingestion is said to weaken the bones.

Leaves are edible cooked.

Flowers are edible, no details.

A fibre from the bark is used in making paper, cloth, rope etc. The fibre can be produced by beating strips of bark on a flat surface with a wooden mallet. A very fine cloth can be made in this way, the more the bark is beaten the finer the cloth becomes. Larger sizes can be made by overlapping 2 pieces of bark and beating them together.

A leather substitute can also be made from the bark.

When used for making paper branches are harvested after the leaves have fallen in the autumn, they are steamed and the fibres stripped off. In humid areas this can be done without steaming the branches. The inner and outer bark are then separated by scraping (or simply peeling in humid areas) and the fibres are cooked for 2 hours with lye before being hand pounded with mallets. The paper varies in colour if the outer and inner barks are used together or separately.

Wood - coarse grained, soft, easily worked, light, not very durable. Used for cups, bowls, furniture etc.