cottonwood

A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.

Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.

[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus

A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.

A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.

There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.

Several species of trees endemic to New Zealand.

A surname.

A town in Houston County, Alabama.

A city in Yavapai County, Arizona.

A census-designated place in Shasta County, California.

A ghost town in Yolo County, California.