cotton
Cotton is a seed fiber of the genus Camelliae, which is native to subtropical. Plant shrubs, cultivated in the tropics can grow to 6 meters high, usually 1 to 2 meters. Flowers milky white, shortly after flowering into dark red and then wither, leaving green small capsule, called bolls. Cotton bolls with cottonseed, cottonseed on the hair from the cottonseed epidermis grow, stuffed inside the boll. The bolls ripped when ripe, revealing soft fibers. Fiber white to white with yellow, about 2 to 4 cm long, containing about 87-90% of cellulose. Cotton production of the highest countries in China, the United States, India, Pakistan, Egypt and other countries. China's cotton-producing areas are mainly Jiangsu, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Xinjiang and other places. Cotton plants are shrubs, native plants in the tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa and Asia, and found the largest difference in wild cotton in Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. In the old world and the new world have been domesticated cotton. Cotton English comes from the Arabic quṭn قطن, about the beginning of the fourteenth century AD. ...