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Ruth Eckerd Hall is a 73,000-square-foot (6,800 m 2) performing arts venue, located in Clearwater, Florida, in the Tampa Bay area and is part of the Richard B. Baumgardner Center for the Performing Arts. The concert hall is named after Ruth Eckerd, the wife of businessman Jack Eckerd, and is a regular performance venue for the Florida Orchestra.
The person who planted the tree and began "The Kapok Tree Inn" owned it for the rest of his life; and then his family carried on for at least 1 more generation. In the 1980's or 1990's its popularity waned (mostly due to Orlando's giant theme parks) and eventually the Inn went bankrupt. In its heyday, it was popular-and very unique.
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 .
Kapok fibre is a cotton-like plant fibre obtained from the seed pods of a number of trees in the Malvaceae family, which is used for stuffing mattresses and pillows, for padding and cushioning, and as insulation.
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 .
After more than a month, he snapped a perfectly timed image in which a murmuration resembled the leafy crown of a bare-branched tree on the lakeshore. “I thought that was the shot,” he recalled.
The Ceiba tree is represented by a cross and serves as an important architectural motif in the Temple of the Cross Complex at Palenque. [7] Ceiba Tree Park is located in San Antón, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Its centerpiece is the historic Ceiba de Ponce, a 500-year-old Ceiba pentandra tree associated with the founding of the city.
The FBGF is committed to creating an environment at the FBG for the community to come together for education, inspiration and enjoyment. It all began in the late 1990’s when a small group of dedicated garden lovers dreamt of creating a verdant oasis in the heart of Pinellas County. It is through their efforts the FBG opened in December 2000,