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Gossypium darwinii
Also called Galápagos Cotton
Darwin's cotton is a shrubby or small tree cotton found only on the Galápagos Islands, closely related to South American cottons. It needs warm, dry conditions and full sun, and is rarely grown outside its native islands.
Gossypium darwinii, or Darwin's cotton, is a species of cotton plant which is found only on the Galapagos Islands. Genetic studies indicate that it is most closely related to the native American species Gossypium barbadense, thus it is surmised that a seed arrived from South America on the wind, in the droppings of a bird or associated with debris by sea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gossypium darwinii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
