mallow family summary

Jute, either of two species of Corchorus plants—C. capsularis, or white jute, and C. olitorius, including both tossa and daisee varieties—belonging to the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), and their fibre. The latter is a bast fibre; i.e., it is obtained from the inner bast tissue of the

Cacao, (Theobroma cacao), tropical evergreen tree (family Malvaceae) grown for its edible seeds, whose scientific name means “food of the gods” in Greek. Native to lowland rainforests of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, cacao is grown commercially in the New World tropics as well as western

Baobab, (genus Adansonia), genus of nine species of deciduous trees of the mallow family, noted for their unusual barrel-like trunks. Six of species are endemic to Madagascar, two are native to mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and one is native to northwestern Australia. Baobabs are known