Cudrania Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Cudrania (Maclura tricuspidata, long known as Cudrania tricuspidata), the Chinese mulberry, che, or mandarin melon berry, is a thorny deciduous tree of the mulberry family, Moraceae, native to China, Korea, and Japan and planted in the southern United States as a fruit curiosity. It grows 6 to 12 meters with grey-brown bark, stout axillary thorns on young growth, and glossy leaves that are oval or three-lobed, the Latin epithet referring to the three points. Small green flower balls ripen on female trees into round, bumpy, red aggregate fruits 2 to 5 centimeters across that taste of watermelon and fig. We extract the dried root.