Maclura tricuspidata

The Chinese mulberry or kudrang is in the mulberry or Moraceae family and is found in much of East Asia (including China and Korea), and has been cultivated extensively in Japan. It is a shrub or small tree, growing up to 6 m tall.

It also is recognized as Cudrania tricuspidata.

• Bark is grayish brown; branchlets are slightly ridged, glabrous; spines are 0.5–2 cm long; winter buds are reddish brown.
• Leaves are deciduous, leaf blade ovate to rhombic-ovate, occasionally 3-lobed, 5–14 cm long and 3–6 cm across, base rounded, margin entire, point tapered; 4–6 secondary veinsare on each side of the midvein, tertiary veins are reticulate; top of leaf is deep green and glabrous, underside is greenish white and glabrous or sparsely pubescent; petiole is 1–2 cm long.
• Fruit is a syncarp (carpels united in a compound ovary), globose, 2.5 cm in diameter, orange red when mature, ripening in June-July.