Ceiba

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Ceiba in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Ceiba (aboriginal name). Bombacaceae. Silk- Cotton. Kapok. Ceiba. Trees, one of which is widely known in the tropics for its great size as a shade tree, and for the "cotton" of its seed-pods. Eriodendron is a more recent name. Leaves digitate, with 5-7 entire lfts.: fls. medium to large, rose or white, on 1-fld. peduncles, solitary or fascicled; calyx cup-shaped, truncate or irregularly 3-5-lobed; petals oblong, pubescent or woolly; staminal tube divided at the apex into 5 or 10 parts, each part bearing a stamen; ovary 5-celled: fr. a coriaceous caps., pubescent within and bearing obovoid seeds embedded in a wool-like or cotton-like fiber.—Allied to Bombax and Adansonia, from which it differs in having 5 parts in the staminal body or column, rather than a much more divided column bearing many stamens on each division. Ten or more species, mostly in Trop. Amer., extending to Asia and Afr. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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