Question

We get cotton from ______________________ of cotton plants.

Answer 1

Hint: There are various products around us which are obtained from different parts of the plants and this is the reason that we depend directly or indirectly on plants. Cotton is an important fiber crop which we obtain from cotton plants. Let us see that from which part we obtain the cotton.

Complete step-by-step answer: Cotton is the most important fiber crop in India because of its variety of uses in all fields. Cotton crop is kharif crop which requires approximately eight months to mature. Cotton cultivation in India has been done since ages.
We obtain cotton from the fruit of cotton plants. The fruit of cotton plants is called cotton balls. The fruit of the cotton plant contains $32$immature seeds. These immature seeds grow to give the fully developed cotton fiber.
The cotton ball grows and becomes thicken within one month which forms a hollow cotton fiber inside the cotton ball, which eventually grows into a size of the fig with time. It almost needs twenty- five days more for a cotton ball to get fully mature. It takes about $40-55$days for a cotton ball to burst out to yield the natural cotton along with the segments.
The dried part (carpel) is called the bur, it is the bur that holds the cotton in its position till the cotton is completely dried, grown and matured which is ready for the harvesting process.

Hence, we get cotton from the fruit of cotton plants.

Note: There is a chance of getting confused with the white colored fully grown ball with the immature green colored ball. The green colored ball (cotton ball), is the fruit of cotton plants, since they only have the seeds in them.