EPPO Global Database

Gossypium arboreum(GOSAR)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: GOSAR
  • Preferred name: Gossypium arboreum
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

India, Sri Lanka. The wild species is the parent of cultivated races developed over many centuries in India, southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and also in parts of Africa, including Egypt. In Europe, sporadically cultivated in southern Portugal and Spain 


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Gossypium indicum Lamarck

Common names
Name
Language
kapas tula Bengali
shù mián Chinese
树棉 Chinese
Asiatic cotton English
tree cotton English
cotonnier en arbre French
asiatische Baumwolle German
kotton Japanese
wata Japanese
コットン Japanese
ワタ Japanese
mok hwa Korean
목화 Korean
algodoeiro-arbóreo Portuguese
хлопчатник древовидный Russian
algodonero arbóreo Spanish
algodonero de Sicilia Spanish