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The Southeast Asian form of C. pentandra only reaches ninety feet (27 meters). [6] Trunks can often be up to 3 m (10 ft) in diameter above the extensive buttress roots. The very largest individuals, however, can be 5.8 m (19 ft) thick or more above the buttresses. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Ceiba is a genus of trees in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas (from Mexico and the Caribbean to northern Argentina) and tropical West Africa. [3] Some species can grow to 70 m (230 ft) tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress ...
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.
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 ...
Xtabay is said to loiter at the foot of the sacred ceiba tree to lure men to their doom. The ceiba tree is a sacred tree of the Mayan people since the belief was that a virtuous person could become a ceiba tree after death. [4] The ceiba tree is considered to be an embodiment of the Axis mundi, connecting heaven, earth and underworld. [4]
Just because a Prime logo is present, Dimyan says, doesn't mean it's sold by Amazon. In actuality, any of Amazon's 3 million marketplace sellers can use the Amazon warehouse to house and ship ...
A kapok fibre is a thin-walled hollow tube with a diameter of about 15 to 35 μm (0.59 to 1.38 mils) and wall thickness about 1 to 2 μm (0.039 to 0.079 mils), filled with up to 80% air by volume, giving it a density of about 1 ⁄ 8 that of cotton fibre. [2] The fibres are not known to cause allergic reactions and are comfortable to wear. [4]
The stigma is light red, up to 9 centimetres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in length, ovary is pink, 1.5–2 centimetres (2 ⁄ 3 – 5 ⁄ 6 in) in length, with the skin of the ovary covered in white silky hair at 1mm long. Seeds are numerous, long, ovoid, black or gray in colour and packed in white cotton. Immature fruits of Bombax ceiba in Hong Kong