Common name: silk floss tree, kapok, floss silk tree, ceiba del brasil
Family: Malvaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: Brazil & Argentina, but cultivated throughout tropics
Description:
Uses: The seedpod silk has been used to stuff cushions
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USDA Zone: 9b-11
Source: Joan Leonard - Ohio State
Provenance:
2004 AERGC Plant Swap - seed from Matt Ritter, Cal Poly
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Culture:
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid II
- Order: Malvales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Malvaceae
- SubFamily: Bombacoideae
- Tribe: Adansonieae
- SubTribe:
References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, December 20, 2016.
- Floridata website
- Ceiba speciosa at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Tuesday, December 20, 2016.
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