Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central...

and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra, one of several trees known as kapok. Ceiba is a word from the Taíno language meaning "boat"...

ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of which may also refer to Ceiba pentandra. This Asian tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves...

historic Ceiba pentandra, a tree associated with the founding of the city. Now surrounded by the park with the same name, the emblematic 500-year-old Ceiba tree...

or Kapok fibre, also known as ceiba and Java cotton, is the fine fibres from the fruit of the kapok tree Ceiba pentandra in the bombax family Bombacaceae...

fruit, but also eat leaves, flowers, and nectar, with nectar from Ceiba pentandra trees making up a large part of their diet during the dry season. They...

extensive buttresses are those of the Kapok, or Silk Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra), of the Neotropics and tropical Africa. The buttresses can extend...

made with kapok, the fluffy, glossy fruit-fibres of the trees Ceiba pentandra and Bombax ceiba. The normal lifespan of a typical western pillow is two to...

Seyba, which is the name for a famous tree that grows in the island, Ceiba pentandra, the kapok tree. Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of...

odorata, Ceiba pentandra, and Hymenaea courbaril trees, serve different purposes depending on their height and thickness of the bark. The Ceiba pentandra tree...

from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012. "Ceiba pentandra". Human Uses and Cultural Importance. Archived from the original on...

Tree (Sierra Leone), a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) that is an historic symbol of Freetown in Sierra Leone Bombax ceiba, a plant species commonly known as...

Buttress roots of the kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra)...

ancestor of the Arawak people. He is related to the Iroko and the Ceiba pentandra, two sacred trees, one in Africa and one in Mesoamerica. Torres, Rafael...

on their identification: the larger is either the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) or thitpok Tetrameles nudiflora, and the smaller is either the strangler...

Islands; previously also known as Bombax malabaricum, the 'Malabar kapok' Ceiba pentandra, a native tree of the tropical Americas and West Africa with white...

mays). It also attacks trees including silk cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), kapok (Ceiba pentandra), teak (Tectona grandis) and the portia tree (Thespesia populnea)...

its state fruit tree. The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture proposed the ceiba as the official tree. It was not officially adopted, but it remains a popular...

Maya, the central world tree was conceived as or represented by a Ceiba pentandra and is known variously as a wacah chan or yax imix che in different...

The Cotton Tree was a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) that was a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. The Cotton Tree gained importance...

kapok (which mostly comes from Ceiba pentandra, but also from other "Kapok trees" also of Malvales, such as Bombax ceiba), and durian. The morphology of...

cantilevered crown (no limbs resting on the ground). Silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) 61.3 201 The Big Tree Barro Colorado Island, Panama European yew (Taxus...

containing seeds covered by a fibre similar to that of the kapok (Ceiba pentandra) and to cotton, though with shorter fibres than cotton, that does not...

Base of Ceiba pentandra in eastern Ecuador...

called "bottle trees". Many species grow to become large trees, with Ceiba pentandra the tallest, reaching a height to 70 m. Several of the genera are commercially...

: 23  'red silk-cotton' or 'kapok' specimen, (sometimes listed as Ceiba pentandra) located in Lalbagh Evening View of the Lake A Japanese decorative...

geoffroyi Sarcoramphus papa Tamandua mexicana Nasua narica Boa constrictor Ceiba pentandra Enterolobium cyclocarpum Rhizophora mangle Haematoxylum campechianum...

name for several plants and may refer to: Bombax ceiba, native to the Asian tropics Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa Cochlospermum...

Samauma (in Brazil, or samahuma in Peru) may refer to: Ceiba pentandra Ceiba samauma Samaúma (or sumaúma), the fibre obtained from the fruit of the above...

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