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Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone) The Cotton Tree is a kapok tree (''Ceiba pentandra'') that is a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. The Cotton Tree gained importance in 1792 when a group of formerly enslaved African Americans, who had gained their f ...
, a kapok tree (''Ceiba pentandra'') that is an historic symbol of Freetown in Sierra Leone * ''
Bombax ceiba ''Bombax ceiba'', like other trees of the genus ''Bombax'', is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of ...
'', a plant species commonly known as cotton tree * ''
Gossypium ''Gossypium'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gossypieae of the Malva, mallow family, Malvaceae, from which cotton is harvested. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, Old and New Worlds. There are abo ...
'', the cotton plant, which can grow from a bush to a tree


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Cotton Tree, Queensland Cotton Tree is a coastal neighbourhood within the suburb of Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. Geography Although not officially bounded, Cotton Tree is generally recognised as being bounded by the Maroochy River ...
, a neighborhood in Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia *
Cottontree Cottontree and Winewall are two hamlets situated in the civil parish of Trawden Forest in Borough of Pendle, Pendle, Lancashire. They are adjacent to one other and located between the towns of Colne and Trawden. Cottontree is generally situated ...
, a hamlet in Lancashire, England, sometimes spelt Cotton Tree


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* Cottonwood (disambiguation) * ''
Bombax ''Bombax'' is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa, the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian ...
'', a genus of plants often called "silk cotton tree", "red cotton tree", or "kapok tree" * Kapok tree (disambiguation), several plant species * Silk-cotton tree, several plant species * ''
Hibiscus tiliaceus ''Hibiscus tiliaceus'', commonly known as the sea hibiscus or coast cottonwood, is a species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, with a pantropical distribution along coastlines. It has also been introduced to Florida and New Zeal ...
'', a flowering tree sometimes known as the cottonwood tree {{disambiguation, plants