Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
Bombax is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa , the Indian subcontinent , Southeast Asia , and the subtropical regions of East Asia and northern Australia .
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
Bombax malabaricum: Smearwort زراوندمدحرج Zaravand Mudharij Aristolochia rotunda: Snake root اسرول Asrol Rauwolfia serpentina: Soap nut ریٹھے Reethe Sapindus trifoliatus: Soap pod wattle سکا کایی Seekakai Acacia concinna: Soapstone سنگجراحت مسلم Sangjarahat Muslim Hydrated magnesium silicate: Spearmint
(Silk) Cotton Tree (called काटे-सावरी (Kāte sāvarī), Savar, or Saur in Maharashtra, Simal or Shimbal in Hindi, hatti mara in Kannada, Shimul in Bengali, Ilavu/Ilava Maram இலவ மரம் in Tamil and Malayalam and Salmali in ) -- Bombax malabaricum, or Bombax ceiba"booruga " in Telugu
One day, King Kwakpa got drunk with a juice of the roots of Tera plant (Bombax malabaricum). He went to meet Irai Leima, riding on a Hiyang boat. Seeing him coming, she fled to Pakhra Ching. Kwakpa followed her. Seeing all these, Heibok Ningthou turned the Hiyang boat into stone and the oar into a growing tree. [6]
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.
Bombax ceiba flower. Bombacaceae were long recognised as a family of flowering plants or Angiospermae. The family name was based on the type genus Bombax.As is true for many botanical names, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view, and currently the preference is to transfer most of the erstwhile family Bombacaceae to the subfamily Bombacoideae within ...