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Gossypium arboreum, tree cotton
East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms
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Gossypium barbadense, sea island cotton, tree cotton
small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States; yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers
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Gossypium herbaceum, Levant cotton
Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons
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Gossypium hirsutum, upland cotton
native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton
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Gossypium peruvianum, Peruvian cotton
cotton with long rough hairy fibers
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Egyptian cotton
fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton
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Arizona wild cotton, Gossypium thurberi, wild cotton
shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico
