-
Ceiba pentandra is a
tropical tree of the
order Malvales and the
family Malvaceae (previously
emplaced in the
family Bombacaceae),
native to Mexico, Central...
- and most
widely cultivated,
species is Kapok,
Ceiba pentandra, one of
several trees known as kapok.
Ceiba is a word from the Taíno
language meaning "boat"...
-
ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of
which may also
refer to
Ceiba pentandra. This
Asian tropical tree has a
straight tall
trunk and its leaves...
- or
Kapok fibre, also
known as
ceiba and Java cotton, is the fine
fibres from the
fruit of the
kapok tree
Ceiba pentandra in the
bombax family Bombacaceae...
-
historic Ceiba pentandra, a tree ****ociated with the
founding of the city. Now
surrounded by the park with the same name, the
emblematic 500-year-old
Ceiba tree...
- fruit, but also eat leaves, flowers, and nectar, with
nectar from
Ceiba pentandra trees making up a
large part of
their diet
during the dry season. They...
-
extensive buttresses are
those of the Kapok, or Silk
Cotton Tree (
Ceiba pentandra), of the
Neotropics and
tropical Africa. The
buttresses can extend...
-
ancestor of the
Arawak people. He is
related to the
Iroko and the
Ceiba pentandra, two
sacred trees, one in
Africa and one in Mesoamerica. Torres, Rafael...
- made with kapok, the fluffy,
glossy fruit-fibres of the
trees Ceiba pentandra and
Bombax ceiba. The
normal lifespan of a
typical western pillow is two to...
-
containing seeds covered by a
fibre similar to that of the
kapok (
Ceiba pentandra) and to cotton,
though with
shorter fibres than cotton, that does not...
