Cotton has simple leaves!
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Yes because cotton comes out of leaves!
The description of the aquilegia caerulea's leaf begins with a finely divided leaf that is a blue green color. The leaf is small and often has five or more points.
a cotton ball with a tail
paper leaf cotton glass
A Canadian maple Leaf, is a leaf found on a Maple tree in Canada. It is a very well known symbol that represents Canada, and if you have noticed it is on the Canadian flag.
There are many leaves with this coloring, and more information, such as region, and type of plant are needed. Online leaf identification guides are a good place to start researching. It is both a qualitative and quantitative observation.
an agriculture economy overly dependent on cotton and slave labor.
Cuneate (cuneata): Triangular, stem attaches to pointhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_shape
ligno cellulosic fibers are those which have the major composition of lignin and cellulose like cotton and pineapple leaf fiber
We don't know the choices you were given so I will provide a general answer. When Whitney invented the cotton gin it allowed growers to plant more cotton because they didn't have to hand pick out the seeds from the dense bolls. Growing more cotton also meant the need for more slaves. The population of slaves reflected the acres of cotton grown.