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Gossypium herbaceum Willd.

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Date

1795-1804

Artist

Unknown Artist (Company School)

Collection

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : The Roxburgh Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

Watercolour illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh. ROX1495.
In his 'Flora Indica' Roxburgh describes this species as a bi-triennial. He also mentions that this species and its varieties Dacca, Berar and China, are the most cultivated by the natives in India. Roxburgh reports "'G. herbaceum' is in general cultivated all over Bengal and Coromandel. It is reared about Dacca, and furnishes that exceedingly fine cotton wool employed in manufacturing the very delicate, beautiful muslins of that place." He finally mentions how the three main varieties [Dacca, Berar and China] differ from each other.
Roxburgh, 'Flora Indica' (1832) v.3, p.184.

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image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

Location

South Asia

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Category

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