10 Facts About Gossypium barbadense

Some cultivars of G barbadense have so few of these short hairs they are often called "lintless".

Wild forms of G barbadense have been found in a small area near the Guayas Estuary in Ecuador and an island off of Manta, Ecuador.

Under this classification scheme, most cultivars of G barbadense produce extra-long-staple fibers, but some cultivars qualify as long-staple.

Gossypium barbadense is cultivated around the world, including China, Egypt, Sudan, India, Australia, Peru, Israel, the southwestern United States, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Gossypium barbadense then demonstrated this could be rather easily back-hybridized to form a cotton that retained these desirable characteristics, yet was almost entirely G barbadense.

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Gossypium barbadense argued that such an event could have happened accidentally in the 18th century, resulting in the long, fine fiber G barbadense of today.

Gossypium barbadense accomplished this in the first decade of the 1800s via seed selection on Burden's Island and Johns Island in South Carolina.

Gossypium barbadense fiber is used for some luxury goods where the fiber qualities are less important than the reputation of the best quality materials.

Gossypium barbadense can be used as a source of cottonseed oil and animal feed.

However, other kinds of cotton generally are preferred because G barbadense seeds contain more of the undesirable substance gossypol.