Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Forwarded from a friend:
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"Dating back to ancient Egypt, India and Peru, short-fiber cotton was
grown in a variety of natural colors (tan, red, green, gray, and
brown). Around 300 B.C.,, Alexander the Great brought the "vegetable
wool" to Europe, and the natural varieties flourished there for
centuries."
This is a direct quote from the back page of Threads magazine (July
2006 number 125), which shows a picture of colored cotton.
I wasn't aware that you could grow colored cotton and thought I would
share this.
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This somehow sounds strange to me, does anyone here know the validity of it?
If you're asking about the Historical Validity of colored cotton, I
can't say. However, I do know that colored cotton is currently being
grown. Dunno if they're heirloom plants or not.
Susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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