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Gossypium arboreum

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Family: Malvaceae · Genus: Gossypium

Gossypium arboreum

Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova · cc_by_sa

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Gossypium arboreum, commonly called tree cotton, is a species of cotton native to India and Sri Lanka. There is evidence of its cultivation as long ago as the Indus Valley Civilisation of the Indus River for the production of cotton textiles. The shrub was included in Linnaeus's Species Plantarum published in 1753. The holotype was also supplied by him, which is now in the Linnean Herbarium in the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

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