Upland cotton or Mexican cotton
Gossypium hirsutum
About
Gossypium hirsutum, also known as upland cotton or Mexican cotton, is the most widely planted species of cotton in the world. Globally, about 90% of all cotton production is of cultivars derived from this species. In the United States, the world's largest exporter of cotton, it constitutes approximately 95% of all cotton production. It is native to Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America, Central America and possibly tropical Florida.
- Family
- Malvaceae
How to use it
Gossypium hirsutum, commonly known as upland cotton, is of immense global industrial importance. It is cultivated extensively for fiber production, with its cultivars supplying about 90% of the world's cotton. In the United States, which stands as the largest exporter of cotton globally, this species makes up roughly 95% of all cotton production.
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Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gossypium hirsutum
- Slug
- gossypium-hirsutum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Gossypium
- Species
- hirsutum
- Wikidata QID
- Q133481
- 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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- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium hirsutum
- inaturalist (common_name)
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- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium hirsutum
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium_hirsutum
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- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium hirsutum
- inaturalist (common_name)
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium_hirsutum