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  2. Ceiba pentandra - Wikipedia

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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 America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa.

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  4. Ceiba - Wikipedia

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    The Ceiba tree is represented by a cross and serves as an important architectural motif in the Temple of the Cross Complex at Palenque. [7] Ceiba Tree Park is located in San Antón, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Its centerpiece is the historic Ceiba de Ponce, a 500-year-old Ceiba pentandra tree associated with the founding of the city.

  5. Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone) - Wikipedia

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    The Cotton Tree is a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) that is a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone.The Cotton Tree gained importance in 1792 when a group of formerly enslaved African Americans, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War, settled the site of modern Freetown.

  6. Cotton tree - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Bombax ceiba - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Silk-cotton tree - Wikipedia

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    Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics This page was last edited on 2 July 2018 ...

  9. Kapok - Wikipedia

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    Bombax ceiba, a red-flowering tree, native to parts of tropical Asia, northern Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands; previously also known as Bombax malabaricum, the 'Malabar kapok' Ceiba pentandra, a native tree of the tropical Americas and West Africa with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre