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  • COMMON NAME: Sea Island Cotton
  • ARABIC: قطن جزيرة البحر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Gossypium barbadense L.
  • SYNONYMS: Gossypium barbadense var. eubarbadense Roberty, Gossypium barbadense subsp. typicum Roberty, Hibiscus barbadensis (L.) Kuntze, Neogossypium barbadense (L.) Roberty
  • FAMILY: MALVACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. now widely cultivated in many tropical countries.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:559677-1/general-information#uses V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Honey nectar plants.
Shrub up to 3 m tall. Leaves deeply 3–5-lobed, the middle lobe longer than wide, usually broadest at the base. Calyx c. 10 mm long, subentire to toothed. Corolla longer than epicalyx. Seeds without fuzz except for a tuft at one end, easily separated from the lint. Flowering from July-August.
Cultivated places and farms.
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