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 (18171862)
“The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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