Forwarding for ID Distributed as Corchorus olitorius ? <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/corchorus/corchorus-olitorius-1> Group discussion at Fwd: AN ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY PACKING MATERIAL : CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS ( JUTE ) (google.com) <https://groups.google.com/g/indiantreepix/c/qk33B_BpARA>
On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 7:23:20 PM UTC+5:30 Ushadi wrote: > 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). 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