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Cup-shaped flowers solitary or clustered, axillary or sub-terminal, fascicles at or near the ends of the branches, when the tree is bare of leaves, an average of 7–11 centimetres (2 + 5 ⁄ 6 – 4 + 1 ⁄ 3 in) wide, 14 centimetres (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in width, petals up to 12 centimetres (4 + 2 ⁄ 3 in) in length, calyx is cup-shaped usually ...
Bombax species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix crateracma which feeds exclusively on Bombax ceiba. The tree appears on the flag of Equatorial Guinea. The tree fibers are 100% cellulose, able to float, impervious to water, and have a low thermal conductivity.
Pseudobombax elipticum is a tree that can reach 18 m (60 ft) in height and 1.3 m (4 ft) d.b.h. Its branches are close to the base of the stem. It is a deciduous tree with succulent stems. Each of the flowers can produce hundreds of tiny black seeds (.1mm) that germinate within approximately 30 days.
Bombax buonopozense, commonly known as the Gold Coast bombax or red-flowered silk cotton tree, is a tree in the mallow family. It is also known in the Dagbani language as Vabga (plural Vabsi ). It is native primarily in West Africa , where it is found in rainforests from Sierra Leone in the northwest, east to Uganda and south to Angola , [ 2 ...
The tree and the cotton-like fluff obtained from its seed pods are commonly known in English as kapok, a Malay-derived name which originally applied to Bombax ceiba, a native of tropical Asia. [3] In Spanish-speaking countries the tree is commonly known as "ceiba" and in French-speaking countries as fromager.
Bombacaceae (bombax family) Bombax: bombax trees; Bombax buonopozense: Gold Coast bombax; red-flowered silk cotton tree Bombacaceae (bombax family) Bombax ceiba: cotton tree; tree cotton Bombacaceae (bombax family) Ceiba: ceiba trees; Ceiba pentandra: kapok tree; ceiba Bombacaceae (bombax family) Ceiba speciosa: floss silk tree Bombacaceae ...
Rhodognaphalon mossambicense, the East African bombax or wild kapok tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It occurs from southeastern Kenya through the coastal and Eastern Arc forests of Tanzania to northern Mozambique and Malawi .
Cotton tree may refer to: Cotton 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 cotton tree; Gossypium, the cotton plant, which can grow from a bush to a tree