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The tree grows up to 240 ft (73 m) tall as confirmed by climbing and tape drop [4] with reports of Kapoks up to 77 meters (252 feet) tall. [5] These very large trees are in the Neotropics or tropical Africa. The Southeast Asian form of C. pentandra only reaches ninety feet (27 meters). [6]
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
Ceiba is a word from the Taíno language meaning "boat" because Taínos use the wood to build their dugout canoes. [4] [5] Ceiba species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species, including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix ceibae, which feeds exclusively on the genus.
Base of a colossal specimen of the kapok tree Ceiba pentandra, with two individuals seated on its buttress roots to indicate scale. Two woodcutters go to the Amazon rainforest. They stop beside a fine Ceiba tree and the larger man points to the tree and leaves. Lulled by "the heat and hum of the forest" the other woodcutter falls asleep beneath ...
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.
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It has a hollow tube structure consisting of about 35% cellulose and nanocellulose, 22% xylan and 21.5% lignin in the dry fibre, as well as pectin and wax. The fibre is hydrophobic due to a fairly high fat content and is not wetted by water, but is absorptive of oil at a level of 40 g/g or 40 oz/oz of fibre from an oil suspension in water. [ 3 ]
Francisco Oller's 1888 depiction of La ceiba de Ponce at Museo de Arte de Ponce. The feature of the park is the historic centuries-old tree. The tree is also known as 'kapok' and 'silk cotton' tree. The scientific name of the tree is Ceiba pentandra. The legendary tree belongs to the genus Ceiba, of the species pentandra, and the family ...