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:

    “We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It never had been inside the room,
    And only one of the two
    Was afraid in an oft-repeated dream
    Of what the tree might do.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)