Cotton Tree

Cotton tree may refer to:

  • Gossypium, the cotton plant, which can grow from a bush to a tree
  • The flowering plant, Hibiscus tiliaceus is sometimes known as the Cottonwood tree
  • Various members of the botanical family Bombacaceae (genus Bombax) are often called Silk-cotton tree
  • Kapok, Java cotton tree
  • Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone), an historic symbol of Freetown in Sierra Leone
Places
  • Cotton Tree, Queensland, Australia
  • Cottontree, a hamlet in Lancashire, England sometimes spelt Cotton Tree

Famous quotes containing the words cotton and/or tree:

    “It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “On every tree a bucket with a lid,
    And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
    The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
    They were content to figure in the trees
    As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
    And that was what the boughs were full of soon.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)