Ceiba pentandra
Nombres relacionados: Arbol del algodón (castellano), Bombacaceae (familia).
Ceiba pentandra
also known as Bombax pentandrum - Kapok, White silk cotton tree
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Ceiba pentandra
Family: Bombacaceae
Kapok tree, Silk Cotton Tree
Origin: Tropical America ...
Ceiba pentandra of Vieques, Puerto Rico
Ficus macrophylla of Santa Barbara, Ca, USA
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The kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra or Eriodendron anfractuosum, is a large, deciduous, tropical tree that is native to tropical America, Africa, and the East Indies.
The floss has been important in commerce since the 1890s; the chief source is Ceiba pentandra, the kapok (or silk-cotton) tree, cultivated in Java, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other parts of East Asia and in Africa, ...
1940s as the Japanese fleet fanned out across the Pacific and captured Java and the Philippines. From those islands came kapok, a seed floss from the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra), the fiber of which was used as a stuffing for life preservers.
Emergent trees like the Kapok (Ceiba pentandra), dipterocarps, or Tualang which can grow to heights of 240 ft, can afford to have air-borne seeds. Their crowns grow high above the canopy and are exposed to the winds that blow there.
that ultimately fall to the floor far below and perhaps act as a barrier to rodents seeking the tiny seeds. Commercial kapok, exported mainly from Java, for innumerable uses, comes from Asian members of the bombax family (such as Ceiba pentandra).
 See also: Kapok, Cotton, Green, May, Bombax
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