Upland cotton
Gossypium hirsutum
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Gossypium hirsutum
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Malvales
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Fields
- Form
- Shrub
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- White, Yellow
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- Fibre, Oil
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- This species gives about nine tenths of all the cotton grown in the world.
- Each cotton fibre is a single, very long cell that grows out of the skin of a seed.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q133481 · All plants · All entries