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Ceiba speciosa, the floss silk tree (formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species of deciduous tree that is native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America.It has several local common names, such as palo borracho (in Spanish literally "drunken stick"), or árbol del puente, samu'ũ (in Guarani), or paineira (in Brazilian Portuguese).
Ceiba insignis and Ceiba speciosa are added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca. Pablo Antonio Cuadra , a Nicaraguan poet , wrote a chapter about the Ceiba tree. He used it as a symbol of the Nicaraguan ancestral roots, a cradle for the nation, and source [ further explanation needed ] during the people's exile.
Ceiba insignis (syn. Chorisia insignis), the white floss-silk tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to dry tropical forests of southern Ecuador and northern Peru. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has found use as a street tree in scattered cities around the world.
Bombax ceiba: cotton tree; tree cotton Bombacaceae (bombax family) Ceiba: ceiba trees; Ceiba pentandra: kapok tree; ceiba Bombacaceae (bombax family) Ceiba speciosa: floss silk tree Bombacaceae (bombax family) Durio: durians; Durio graveolens: durian merah; durian burong Bombacaceae (bombax family) Durio kutejensis: durian pulu; durian merah ...
Ceiba speciosa, native to South America; Ceiba ventricosa, native to Brazil; Iriartea ventricosa This page was last edited on 29 ...
Ceiba speciosa; V. Ceiba ventricosa This page was last edited on 29 March 2013, at 11:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Fallen flower of Bombax ceiba. Bombax species are among the largest trees in their regions, reaching 30 to 40 metres in height and up to three metres in trunk diameter. The leaves are compound with entire margins and are deciduous, being shed in the dry-season.
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 .