thank you Bimalda for the kind remarks ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 7:09 PM Subject: Re: AN ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL : CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS ( JUTE ) To: Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>
Thank you Ushadi. It is enlightening. Wish you happiness. With regards, Bimal On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 08:58, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> wrote: > This series about jute is after retting > so we could focus on the fibers only > > it would be impossible to say which species and its variety these pictures > represent > unless you know what seeds were planted and you had the plant material > including leaves flowers fruits etc > > In this case we have two choices > a white jute fibre : Corchorus capsularis > and a golden jute fibre: Corchorus olitorius , also known as TOSSA JUTE > The sixth picture above shows the hanging parts of the retted fibres > they appear WHITE to my eyes in my computer screen > *if the fibres are white, it is surmised that it is Corchorus capsularis * > > The Indian Jute research institute has these many varieties listed > see attached docx . it would be impossible to further classify this plant > based on fibres only. > > confusion may have been because of this quote: " and we used to read in > geography " JUTE IS CALLED THE GOLDEN FIBER ". > that bengali sentiment was due to good prices that were paid to farmers in > the heydays of jute trading. > > but this is white, the inferior quality of fibres. so i think it may be > Corchorus > capsularis > > so what do you think??? > usha di > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:06 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Bimal ji, >> I think it may be *Corchorus olitorius* L. >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/corchorus/corchorus-olitorius> >> as >> per details herein and as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jute >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> >> Date: 8 August 2018 at 06:58 >> Subject: AN ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL : CORCHORUS >> CAPSULARIS ( JUTE ) >> To: >> >> >> For last few days there are many uploads on use of indiscriminate use of >> plastic as packing material and the devastating affect it created for the >> planet earth. I come from a village in Bangladesh ( then it was East >> Pakistan ), Jute was the main cash crop in that part of the sub-continent , >> and we used to read in geography " JUTE IS CALLED THE GOLDEN FIBER ". >> Even in 1964 when I migrated to India, jute was the main packing >> material. Rice, atta , dal, sugar even cement used to come in jute made >> bags. Marketing bag used to be jute made. Ropes used to be made of jute. >> Now you see hardly any material used for packing is made of jute. We stupid >> men realized the problem a little late. We are behaving like " Kalidas ", >> who chopped the branch of a tree on which he was sitting. Of late in some >> places indiscriminate use of plastic has been banned. So there is a chance >> for jute to have a come back, only if govt is serious about it. >> Attaching 7 images which shows the journey of jute from a plant to the >> fiber. In addition to its use as a paching material tender leaves of jute >> is used as a vegetable. Jute stick has many uses in the villages. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> >> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or >> Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 >> are directly displayed). >> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
