Cotton tree may refer to:
- Gossypium, the cotton plant, which can grow from a bush to a tree
- The flowering plant, Hibiscus tiliaceus is sometimes known as the Cottonwood tree
- Various members of the botanical family Bombacaceae (genus Bombax) are often called Silk-cotton tree
- Kapok, Java cotton tree
- Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone), an historic symbol of Freetown in Sierra Leone
- Places
- Cotton Tree, Queensland, Australia
- Cottontree, a hamlet in Lancashire, England sometimes spelt Cotton Tree
Famous quotes containing the words cotton and/or tree:
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)