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| | Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany |
 | | The Moraceae are monoecious or dioecious trees shrubs, lianas, or rarely herbs comprising 40 genera and 1,000 species, nearly all with milky sap. |
 | | The leaves are simple and alternate or rarely opposite. |
 | | Indigenous Hawaiian species, note the small cluster of greenish female flowers, each with a reddish, two-branched stigma, and the whitish pendulous catkin of male flowers. |
| www.botany.hawaii.edu /faculty/carr/mor.htm (643 words) |
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