Gossypium arboreum

Gossypium arboreum
Seed capsules on a cultivated specimen in Osaka, Japan
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Gossypium
Species:	G. arboreum
Binomial name
Gossypium arboreum L.[2]
Synonyms[2]
Gossypium albiflorum Tod. Gossypium anomalum G.Watt Gossypium arboreum var. wightianum (Tod.) M.R.Almeida Gossypium asiaticum Raf. Gossypium bani (G.Watt) Prokh. Gossypium cernuum Tod. Gossypium comesii Sprenger Gossypium figarei Tod. Gossypium glabratum Tod. Gossypium gracile Salisb. Gossypium herbaceum var. wightianum (Tod.) T.Cooke Gossypium indicum Lam. Gossypium intermedium Tod. Gossypium macranthum Tod. Gossypium nanking Meyen Gossypium neglectum Tod. Gossypium obtusifolium Roxb. ex G.Don Gossypium obtusifolium var. wightiana G.Watt Gossypium perennans Delile ex Roberty Gossypium puniceum Fenzl Gossypium roseum Tod. Gossypium roxburghii Tod. Gossypium royleanum Tod. Gossypium rubicundum Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Gossypium rubrum Forssk. Gossypium sanguineum Hassk. Gossypium soudanense (G.Watt) G.Watt Gossypium vaupelii J.Graham Gossypium wattianum S.Y.Hu Gossypium wightianum Tod. Hibiscus albiflorus Kuntze Hibiscus cernuus (Tod.) Kuntze Hibiscus nangking Kuntze Xylon indicum (Lam.) Medik.

Gossypium arboreum, commonly called tree cotton, is a species of cotton native to Indian subcontinent and other tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. 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.^[3]