Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Gossypium hirsutum L.
Family : MALVACEAE
Genus : Gossypium
Catalan common name : Cotó. Cotoner. Cotonera.
Spanish common name : Algodón. Algodonero. Algodonero herbáceo.
Province distribution : Balearic Islands.
Distribution in the islands : Mallorca.
General distribution : America
Flowering time : January. February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December.
Life-forms : Terophyte.
Habitat : Subespontaneous.
Uses and properties : Textile industry. Tòxica.
Characteristics : A small pubescent shrub with large solitary flowers, cream coloured. The leaves are wide and lobate, dark green in colour. The fruit is a large capsule; egg shaped and in the interior is found the seeds surrounded by a pappus fibre that is the cotton that we harvest. Differs from G. herbaceum by its calyculus segment teeth, which are three times as long as they are wide, and by the deltoid foliar lobules that are none attenuate at the base.
Status : Alien species.
