Accession Data
Ceiba pentandra
Common Name: Kapok Tree
Family: Malvaceae
Country of Origin: tropical America; also found in western tropical Africa
Description: A large deciduous tree from the American tropics, it is also found (as Ceiba pentandra var. guineensis) in western tropical Africa where it is the tallest tree found on that continent. It is known for the cotton-like fiber around the seeds which is used for flotation devices. Young leaves are cooked and eaten.
Tree to 150' or more, branches widely spreading, spiny trunk (prickles) often to 9 feet in diameter, with thin buttresses sometimes extending 30 feet; leaflets 5-7, oblong-lanceolate, to 6 inches long, entire; flowers usually opening before the leaves appear, calyx 4-5 lobed, to 1/2" long, petals yellowish, rose or white, oblong-obovate, to 1 3/8" long, tomentose outside; capsule ellisoid to fusiform, 4-10 inches long.
Cultivated for kapok, produced mainly in Ceylon, Java and the Phillipine Islands.
Uses: MEDICINAL PROPERTIES Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, wounds, ulcers, skin diseases, hemorrhoids, urinary calculus, cystitis, inflammations, cough, bronchitis and dark discolorations on face.
Useful part : Resin, Leaves, Bark, Thorns.
from Aryuvedicmedicinalplants.com
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 9b-11
Accession #: 198500310
Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1103
Quantity: 1
Source: Unknown
Provenance:
Grown from seed collected in Puerto RIco by F.H. Wolfe.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosid II
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
SubFamily: Bombacoideae
Tribe: Adansonieae
Flowering Data:
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References
- California Rare Fruit Growers WWW Site
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 28 September 2015.
- Ceiba pentandra at GBIF. Last accessed on Thursday, September 08, 2016.
- Ceiba pentandra at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, September 08, 2016.
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