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Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum

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  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum capsule
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum capsule husk
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum epicalyx
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum flower
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum gland dots
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum leaf from below
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum leaves
  • Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum presenting its wild cotton

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Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum, commonly known as wild cotton, is a scrambling or straggly, deciduous shrub reaching 1,5 m in height and spreading. There are about 39 species in the cotton-producing genus worldwide, three of which occur in southern Africa, all three of them in Namibia, one in South Africa.

Horticultural selection, breeding and cultivation of Gossypium plants (they belong to the Malvaceae family) have yielded the commercial cotton originating from this genus. G. hirsutum has become the main source of used cotton; Gossypium is an ancient name for cotton. 

The species distribution in South Africa is in the northeast of the country, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, apart from widespread occurrence in Africa and Asia.

The habitat is woodland, scrub, thicket, a common sight in the lowveld and on lower slopes. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Pooley, 1998; Onderstall, 1996; Letty, 1962; iSpot; Mannheimer and Curtis, (Eds.), 2009; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; http://redlist.sanbi.org).

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