Corchorus olitorius

Corchorus olitorius

Order	Malvales
Family	Malvaceae
Genus	Corchorus

2n =

Origin : area of origin

wild or cultivated

Uses summary

Description

• 1, flowering branch; 2, flower; 3, fruits; 4, seed. Redrawn and adapted by Iskak Syamsudin
  1, flowering branch; 2, flower; 3, fruits; 4, seed. Redrawn and adapted by Iskak Syamsudin
• 
  crop near a swamp
• 
  flowering twig
• 
  flower
• 
  cv. ‘Géant de Bertoua’
• 
  shoot of ‘Incisifolius’ type of cultivar
• 
  fruiting twig
• 
  fruits and seeds (Museum of Toulouse)

History

• 
  Curtis's botanical magazine, 1828. vol. 55 NS 2, t. 2810

Uses

• 
  meloukhia
• 
  saluyot in the Philippines
• 
  jute after harvesting
• 
  jute being dried
• 
  jute
• 
  transportation oj jute in a Bangladesh village

Links

• BHL
• GRIN
• IPNI
• Mansfeld
• Moerman, Native American Ethnobotany
• Multilingual Plant Name Database
• NewCrop Purdue
• Philippine Medicinal Plants
• Plant List
• Plants for a future (en attente)
• PROTA sur Pl@ntUse
• Useful Tropical Plants Database
• Wikipédia
• Wikwio - Adventices de l'Ouest de l'Océan Indien