Malvaceae
Cotton root
Gossypium herbaceum
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Gossypium
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Common names
By language (22)
- Afrikaans
- Wildekatoen
- Arabic
- قطن عشبي, باموق
- arz
- قطن عشبى
- Catalan
- Cotoner, Cotoner arbori, Planta del cotó
- Chinese
- 草棉, 小棉, 棉籽, 棉花, 棉花壳, 棉花子, 棉花根, 棉花油
- Danish
- Almindelig Bomuld
- English
- Cotton root, Levant cotton
- Finnish
- Intianpuuvilla
- Japanese
- シロバナワタ
- kab
- Tafduxt
- Korean
- 초면
- Malayalam
- നൂൽപ്പരുത്തി
- Persian
- پنبه معمولی
- Polish
- Bawełna indyjska
- Slovenian
- Zelni bombaževec
- smn
- Indiapumbul
- Swedish
- Indisk bomull
- Tamil
- பாரம்
- Turkmen
- Aborigen gowaça
- Ukrainian
- Бавовник трав'янистий
- Uzbek
- Afrika-osiyo gʻoʻzasi, Afrika-osiyo g'o'zasi, Afrika-osiyo g`o`zasi, O't g'o'za, O`t g`o`za, Oʻt gʻoʻza, Afrika-Osiyo G‘o‘zasi, O‘t G‘o‘za
- Vietnamese
- Bông vải
Synonyms
- Gossypium siamense Tussac
Photos
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Calimo, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: V.Thamaraiselvi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: 1011Raj, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.