Sea Island Cotton

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Caroline Sameul recently captured and submitted some lovely pictures of the local Barbados cotton found growing as a shrub in the St. Joseph area of Barbados. Of course this is not uncommon in the tropics but it is amazing that cotton is something we use every day, yet we hardly think about where it comes from. Cotton is a soft, staple  fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant Gossypium, a  shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the India and Africa. The fiber most often is spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile which is the most widely used natural-fiber cloth in clothing today. 

check out the cool reflective light coming through the cotton buds in this shot...

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