Cotton

Gossypium arboreum

National flower of Kyrgyzstan

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  • Flower name
    Cotton
  • Scientific name
    Gossypium arboreum
  • Aliastree cotton, コットン, ツリーコットン, 綿, Cotton, 青綿, アオワタ
  • Place of originInd
  • Place of floweringSubtropical region
  • Flowering seasonAugust, September, October, November
  • Language of flowers“很棒”,“崇高”

What is Cotton

Cotton 'Gossypium arboreum' or tree cotton is an annual plant of the department Malvaceae Gossypium genus native of Ind. The cotton wool which split open like popcorn white is fun. As for the color of a flower, the center does strong purplish red with light yellow. The leaf resembles a maple leaf and is split in five from tree. The seminal hair becomes the raw materials of cotton of spinning raw materials and the futon, cotton, gunpowder and the celluloid as raw cotton. As for the cotton seed cake oil which it is adopted from the cotton fruit which is a seed of the cotton, it is with raw materials of edible oil and margarine, soap, the galactogogue. The root skin becomes the emmenagogue. The refuse which squeezed cotton seed cake oil is used as feed and manure.

generic name: Cotton , a scientific name: Gossypium arboreum, national flower: Kyrgyzstan,Another name: tree cotton, place of origin: India, height of a rice plant: 100-300 cm, the flowering (real admiration) period: For from August to November, it is a color of a flower: The core which is central in the thin yellow ground is body purple-red, flower diameter: 5 cm.


  • Order
    Malvales
  • Family
    Malvaceae
  • Genus
    Gossypium
  • Species
    G.arboreum
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Cluster inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Five-petal
  • Leaf type
    Palm shape
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typeannual plant
  • Flower colorsRed Pink Yellow Cream White
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorBrown Green
  • Height60.0 ~ 120.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower6.0 ~ 6.0 cm

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