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Corchorus olitorius (nalta jute)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Corchorus olitorius, commonly known as Nalta jute, tossa jute, Jew's mallow, West African sorrel and bush okra, is a species of shrub in the family Malvaceae. It is the primary source of jute fibre. The leaves and young fruits are used as a vegetable, the dried leaves are used for tea and as a soup thickener, and the seeds are edible.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A fibre is obtained from the stems, it is the main source of jute; The fibre is somewhat coarse and is used mainly for sackcloth etc; The stems are harvested when the plant is in flower and are then retted (allowed to begin to rot) so that the fibre can be extracted; This species tends to branch making fibre extraction more difficult; Growing the plants very close together will prevent some of the branching. If used in making paper, the fibres are cooked for 2 hours with lye and then ball milled for 4
Height [1]  11.48 feet (3.5 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barra Honda National Park II 5689 Costa Rica  
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia

Predators

Acraea eponina (Orange Acraea)[3]
Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug)[4]
Pectinophora gossypiella (Pink bollworm)[3]
Pempelia fibrivora[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0