sunn

sunn
/sun/, n.
1. a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
2. the fiber. Also called sunn hemp, sun hemp, Bombay hemp, Madras hemp.
[1580-90; < Hindi san < Skt sana]

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plant
also called  Sann Hemp, or Indian Hemp 

      (Crotalaria juncea), plant of the pea family (Fabaceae, or Leguminosae) or its fibre, one of the bast fibre group. The plant is also cultivated in many tropical countries as a green manure crop that is plowed under to fertilize soil. The sunn plant is not a true hemp. It is probably native to the Indian subcontinent, where it has been cultivated since prehistoric times. It was introduced to the Western Hemisphere early in the 19th century.

      Sunn is an annual cultivated from seed and grows best in loamy, well-drained soil, but it is adaptable to poor soils and fairly arid climates and is often grown in rotation with such crops as rice, corn (maize), and cotton. Plants reach a height of about 2.5 to 3 m (8 to 10 feet). The dense sowing of fibre crops limits leaf growth to plant tops. Leaves are bright green in colour, pointed in form, and 5 to 7.5 cm (2 to 3 inches) in length; the small yellow flowers grow in spikelike clusters from the angle between the leafstalk and the plant stem (leaf axil). Fibre crops are either cut or pulled out when seedpods begin to form; green manure crops are plowed under when the plants begin to flower. Fibres are obtained by a retting operation, followed by stripping, washing, and drying.

      Sunn fibre is lustrous, with whitish, gray, or yellow colour. The fibre strands, about 1 to 1.5 m long, are composed of individual fibre cells, cylindrically shaped and with striated surface markings. Sunn fibre is almost as strong as hemp and more durable than jute. It increases in strength when wet and is fairly resistant to mildew and other microorganism attack. The fibre is made into cordage, fishing nets, sacking fabrics, canvas, and rug yarns and is used to manufacture such paper products as cigarette and tissue papers. India is the main producer, and the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the United States are the leading importers.

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