PLANT FOR IDENTIFICATION -28

[Debasish Joardar]

Hi Friends,

 

Photographed at Bhadreshwar, Hooghly, West Bengal on 11/11/2007.

 

Is it Corchorus olitorius, Family-Tiliaceae............. (Jute)?

 

Thanking you,

 

Debasish Joardar.

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[J.M. Garg]

It appears so from a few pictures I glanced through the following Wikipedia link (giving very interesting details), but I can't confirm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jute

 

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[Susmita Basu]

This looks like Corchorus aestuans, this differs from         C.olitorius (jute) in having 3 beak-like appendages on the top of the liinear capsule, have only one such appendage. The capsule is not discernible in this picture, but probably it can be verified later personally.

 

Ref. Flora of West Bengal, Vol I and Paschimbanger Udvid , Vol II by S.R.Ghosh, both published by BSI.

 

Susmita

[Susmita Basu]

Sorry, some part of my mail was inadvertently erased. What I meant was while C.aestuans have 3 beak-like appendages on the top of the capsule, C.olitorius have only one.

Regards

Susmita