Patua Saag / Wild Jute
Corchorus tridens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Patua Saag
Identify Patua Saag by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Capsule tipped with three teeth.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Punjab and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Tiliaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Patua Saag.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Corchorus tridens
- Genus
- Corchorus
- Family
- Tiliaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- Tropics
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Tiliaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Patua Saag itself; the rest are typical of the Tiliaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Nepali
- Patua saag
About Patua Saag
A member of the Tiliaceae family, Wild Jute (Corchorus tridens) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and 6 other states. It grows in dry deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Tiliaceae
Lime tree/Jute family
Patua Saag belongs to the Tiliaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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