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:
“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)