Merremia peltata

(Thespesia lampas)

galery

Description

Gossypium thurberi, also known as Arizona wild cotton, Thurber's cotton, or Desert Cotton, is a wild species of cotton. t is native to the Sonoran desert area of northern Mexico and parts of the state of Arizona in the United States. It is often used in some southern Arizona landscapes as a deciduous shrub to small tree to 10 feet (3.0 m) tall. It is used as a larval food plant for the royal moth. Their flowers are not showy, but the palm-shaped green leaves turn maroon in autumn.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Malvales
Family:Malvaceae
Genus:Thespesia
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