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)

    “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:12.