Crossword-Solution: OCHRO 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There is also a tall bunch of Ochro {314b}--a purple-stemmed mallow-flowered plant--whose mucilaginous seeds will thicken his soup.

There is no method known of curing this disease, and all that can be done is to take every precaution to eradicate it, by pulling up and burning diseased plants, isolating the infected area by means of trenches, and avoiding growing cotton, or an allied plant such as the ochro (_Hibiscus esculentus_), in the field.