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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...
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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;...
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known in
English as kapok, a Malay-derived name
which originally applied to
Bombax ceiba, a
native of
tropical Asia. In Spanish-speaking
countries the tree...
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Bombax costatum is a tree
usually reaching a
height of 5 – 15 m. It
flowers in the dry
season before the
leaves appear. Its
distribution is restricted...
- it was
introduced , it was also
called dàguǒ mùmián [lit. "large-fruited
Bombax ceiba"] in the
early days.
Later it was
discovered that the
filaments of...
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Malvaceae Genus:
Pachira Species: P. glabra
Binomial name
Pachira glabra Pasq.
Synonyms Bombacopsis glabra (Pasq.)
Robyns Bombax glabrum (Pasq.) A.Robyns...
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Bombax buonopozense,
commonly known as the Gold
Coast bombax or red-flowered silk
cotton tree, is a tree in the
mallow family. It is also
known in the...
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Bombax anceps is a tree
species now in the
Malvaceae that was
described by Jean
Baptiste Louis Pierre from its
range in Indochina. The
subspecies B. a...
- the fine
fibres from the
fruit of the
kapok tree
Ceiba pentandra in the
bombax family Bombacaceae.
Kapok is a
fibrous material classified along with cotton...
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Binomial name
Cochlospermum religiosum (L.)
Alston Synonyms List
Bombax gossypium L.
Bombax religiosum L.
Cochlospermum bali**** Boerl.
Cochlospermum gossypium...
