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(Corchorus aestuans)

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Description

Corchorus aestuans is an annual plant with erect, sparingly branched stems, growing about 40cm tall The plant yields a fibre and edible leaves. It is harvested from the wild for local use and is sometimes also cultivated as a fibre plant in tropical W Africa, sometimes also in SE Asia A weed of waste ground from sea level to 2,000 metres. Grassy savannah, fallow land; sandy riverbeds; small alluvial depressions; on heavy alluvial soils; in clay near granitic outcrops at elevations up to 1,350 metres in Somalia.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Malvales
Family:Malvaceae
Genus:Corchorus
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