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Calcutta hemp

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ID 698497 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain fabric & fibres
  • a branching leguminous shrub, Crotalaria juncea, with long narrow leaves and bright yellow flowers, widely cultivated in Southen Asia for its fibre; also, the fibre of this plant used for rope, cordage, sacking, etc.; (transf.) applied to Hibiscus cannabinus, which yields brown or Indian hemp
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  • A bast fibre obtained from the plant Crotalaria juncea. (The term hemp is often incorrectly used in a generic sense for fibres from different plants, e.g. ... sunn hemp (sunn fibre) from Crotalaria juncea).
Sunn hemp

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