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Levant cotton
Gossypium herbaceum
About
Gossypium herbaceum, commonly known as Levant cotton, is a species of cotton native to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia where it still grows in the wild as a perennial shrub. It is a sister-species of Gossypium arboreum.
- Family
- Malvaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Gossypium herbaceum
- Slug
- gossypium-herbaceum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Gossypium
- Species
- herbaceum
- Wikidata QID
- Q177615
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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