This plant also bears the vernacular name of "false cotton", because the fruits are ovoid capsules resembling those of the cotton plant, containing black seeds covered with long whitish hairs.
<p>This wild plant flowers during the rainy season unlike the neighboring species Cochlospermum tinctorium which flowers during the dry season after the fire.
Cochlospermum planchonii is one of the favorite plants of cattle on pastures in Benin.
</p><p>The root extracts yellow dye to dye the loincloths. The fibers of the plant are still used to make ropes around the Punjari National Park.
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The root bark is used in Nigeria to treat certain ulcers.
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