Mulberry vs. Sycamore — What's the Difference?

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Morus, having unisexual flowers in drooping catkins and edible usually purple fruit.

Sycamore is a name which has been applied to several types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms. The name derives from the ancient Greek συκόμορος (sūkomoros) meaning "fig-mulberry".

The sweet fruit of any of these trees.

Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Platanus, especially P. occidentalis of eastern North America, having palmately lobed leaves, ball-like, nodding, hairy fruit clusters, and bark that flakes off in large pieces. Also called buttonball, buttonwood.

A grayish to dark purple. Also called murrey.

A Eurasian deciduous maple tree (Acer pseudoplatanus) having palmately lobed leaves, winged fruits, and greenish flowers.

Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.

A fig tree (Ficus sycomorus) of Africa and adjacent southwest Asia, mentioned in the Bible, having clusters of figs borne on short leafless twigs.

The fruit of this tree.

(US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.

A dark purple colour tinted with red.

(British) A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.

Of a dark purple color tinted with red.

(originally) A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.

The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

A large tree (Ficus Sycomorus) allied to the common fig. It is found in Egypt and Syria, and is the sycamore, or sycamine, of Scripture.

A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.

Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

Any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry

Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits

Sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus

Eurasian maple tree with pale gray bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn

Thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the Biblical sycamore