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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"...
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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...
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historic Ceiba pentandra, a tree ****ociated 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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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Human Uses and
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