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Urena lobata
Also called Congo jute, Bur Mallow, Caesar Weed, Aramina Plant, Pipiri, Urena Weed, Pink Flowered Chinese Burr
Urena lobata, commonly known as Caesarweed or Congo jute, is a tender perennial, variable, erect, ascendant shrub or subshrub measuring up to 0.5 meters (1.6 ft) to 2.5 meters (8.2 ft) tall. The stems are covered with minute, star-like hairs and often tinged purple. Considered a weed, it is considered to be native throughout much of the tropical and subtropical world, including South and Central America, Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands.
It is native to the tropics and subtropics, where it grows on riverbeds, in bushes, fallow areas, and in disturbed grounds with low ruderal and shrubby secondary vegetation.
Urena lobata was grown as a fibre crop in Sierra Leone during the 1970s and 1980s, but it had limited success as a crop.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Urena lobata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
