Eden Project

Friday Fun: Its Plant Records!

(For a bit of fun, every Friday our Plant Records Manager, Chris Bisson, the guy who maintains all the recorded information on our plant collections, will do a regular blog slot where he recommends his favourite “plant records” – that is, songs that are in some way linked to a plant. (Do you see what we did there?) )

‘Pick A Bale of Cotton’ Leadbelly (1945)

Gossypium hirsutum or Cotton is one of the most important economic plants in the world, the material we use comes from the fluffy seed covering, which is spun into fibres and then woven into cloth. People have grown and used cotton for thousands of years. We currently have Cotton Plants growing in our Mediterranean Biome. Much of music we listen to today is derived from the folk and blues songs of the cotton pickers and slaves used in the production of this cloth.

Chris Bisson – Plant Records Manager  – Eden Project

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