Slippery Burr

(Corchorus hirtus)

galery

Description

Slippery bur is a densely branched shrub with a taproot, growing up to 1 metre tall. The plant is harvested from the wild for its leaves, which are used to make a tea Moist or dry thickets, often in waste ground, at elevations of 1,000 metres or lower. A weed of roadsides, stony waste places, rough pastures and thickets, mostly on limestone, at elevations up to 750 metres in Jamaica.

Taxonomic tree:

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