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Extra-long staple
Gossypium barbadense
About
Gossypium barbadense, also known as extra-long staple (ELS) cotton, is a species of cotton plant that has been cultivated to have extra-long staple fibers - longer than 34 mm (1 3/8"), that are associated with high quality products. Varieties of ELS cotton include West Indian Sea Island Cotton Association (WISACA) Sea Island, American Pima, Egyptian ELS Gizas, Indian Suvin, and Chinese xinjiang. It is a tropical, frost-sensitive perennial plant that produces yellow flowers and has black seeds....
- Family
- Malvaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gossypium barbadense
- Slug
- gossypium-barbadense
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Gossypium
- Species
- barbadense
- Wikidata QID
- Q311515
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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