Gossypium
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A short encyclopedia entry defining Gossypium, the botanical genus of the cotton plant, in the Malvaceae family. It describes the plants as tall shrubs with lobed leaves, yellow mallow-like flowers and angular pods whose seeds are covered in the cellular filaments that make commercial cotton. It refers readers to the separate Cotton entry.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
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- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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