Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok,[3] both of which may also refer to Ceiba pentandra.
This Asian tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage.[4] It produces a capsule which, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals. Although its stout trunk suggests that it is useful for timber, its wood is too soft to be very useful.
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originally applied to Bombaxceiba, a native of tropical Asia. In Spanish-speaking countries the tree is commonly known as "ceiba" and in French-speaking...
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(Zea mays). It also attacks trees including silk cotton tree (Bombaxceiba), kapok (Ceiba pentandra), teak (Tectona grandis) and the portia tree (Thespesia...
kapok (which mostly comes from Ceiba pentandra, but also from other "Kapok trees" also of Malvales, such as Bombaxceiba), and durian. The morphology of...
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(cladistically, all those plants more closely related to Malva sylvestris than to Bombaxceiba) of Malvoideae, which includes additionally the tribe Matisieae (three...
trees (Albizia procera), moj (Archidendron bigeminum) and cotton trees (Bombaxceiba). Bamboo covers an area of over 300 hectares (700 acres). A herd of around...
species, all referred to as "Kapok trees", for example: Ceiba pentandra, Bombaxceiba and Bombax costatum – used as an edible oil, and in soap production...
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5 nests to 130 nests. The majority of these colonies were located on Bombaxceiba trees, with much fewer located on Ficus religiosa and Dalbergia sissoo...
monotypic genus, Ceraceosorus. C. bombacis is a fungus that infects the tree Bombaxceiba in India. This economically important tree is used as an ornamental tree...
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