Cotton  Gossipium herbaceum.  tropical shrub.

Cotton grows up to six feet high, with lobed leaves and large, yellow, red-centered flowers like those of the hollyhock, developing the capsule (the boll) containing several seeds densely covered with long white fluffy hairs. Some of the uses both ancient and modern are as fiber for thread, lamp wicks, cloth, mummy wrappings, rubber tire fabrics, stuffing, ropes, carpet; seed oil for cooking, soap, oil-cake used as fertilizer and lubricant; stalk for paper and fuel; flower as a source of mild honey; flower petal for yellow and brown dye, and medicinally for surgical dressings.

Esther 1:6
Isaiah 19:9