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Gossypium herbaceum

Common names

Wild cotton

My notes

Usually grows on hedges.

Extract from Wikipedia article

Gossypium herbaceum, commonly known as Levant cotton, is a species of cotton native to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia where it still grows in the wild as a perennial shrub. It is a sister-species of Gossypium arboreum.

Bush of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) found near Dar Al Salam Compound, Abu Hamour area. Doha, Qatar, May 10, 2013

Yellow flower of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) found near Dar Al Salam Compound, Abu Hamour area. Doha, Qatar, May 10, 2013

Fruit (seed pod) of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) found near Dar Al Salam Compound, Abu Hamour area. Doha, Qatar, May 10, 2013

Wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) taken Al Istiqlal Street near West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 5, 2015

Dissected fruits of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) taken Al Istiqlal Street near West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 5, 2015

Flower of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) in Al Luqta area. Doha, Qatar, March 13, 2015
Al Abeer Street, Doha, Qatar

Close up of a maroon flower of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) in Al Luqta area. Doha, Qatar, March 13, 2015
Al Abeer Street, Doha, Qatar

Flower of wild cotton (Gossypium herbaceum) taken from Al Luqta area. Doha, Qatar, March 13, 2015
Doha Expressway, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Gossypium herbaceum, Wikipedia article
• Gossypium herbaceum from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

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• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
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Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.