Did you know cotton and okra are cousins? The plants are botanically related from the same scientific family Malvaceae.
The veined leaf shapes are very similar with a reddish purpleย spot at the base of each petal.
The blooms are similar too.
The final product!
One fills our bellies, the otherย covers our bellies. I love both!
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Musical Pairing:
Alabama – Song of the South
Entertaining, informative, fun! Great video/music too!
Thanks Colene!
Very Cool!!!
I never knew this. Enjoyed the pictures.
Thanks for sharing this information. Now I can look smart to my husband who kinda grows okra and to my daddy who kinda grows cotton. Cool!
Glad to help!
I’ve never liked okra because of the texture on the inside. Seeing its relation to cotton, it makes sense now.
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Good one, Talya! Loved it and learned from it.
The neat thing about your blogs, is they are just as interesting the second time around. Happy 4Th!
Thanks, Colene!
Since both of them are related to the Rose of Sharon plant, I have been thinking of trying to hybridize a perennial plant which can either produce food or fiber.
This would be an awesome product because you would not have to keep planting them every year! (^_^)/
How you tried hybridizing cotton and okra ? I saw on the web about a fellow Brian Kerr in Australia who has succeeded. If you have done it, I would like to hybrid seeds.