Jute species
- The plant is an annual shrub, tall slender half shrubby nearly 2-3 meters of height.
- Stem bears alternate leaves simple and petiolate.
- Flowers are yellow and small.
- Fruit are capsules.
- It has well branched tap root stem is terminally branched.
- Fibers produced from its secondary phloem.
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Features |
C. capsularis |
C. olitorius |
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Height |
1.5-4 m |
About 5 m |
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Leaves |
Glabrous |
Comparatively less glabrous |
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Flower |
Smaller |
Large |
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Capsules |
Rounded capsules with 35-50 seeds per capsule |
Irregular with about 200 seeds per capsule |
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Seeds |
Brown and larger |
Blackish to bluish, irregular and smaller |
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Seed weight |
300 seeds/g |
500 seeds/g |
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Nature |
Hardy, tolerate water logging conditions better |
More responsive to short photoperiod |
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Fiber |
Coarse fiber |
Finer, softer, lustrous and comparatively expensive |
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Popular as |
White jute |
Tossa jute |