Ceiba pentandra commonly called Kapok tree in Asia and Silk Cotton tree in the Caribbean originated from the American tropics, Asia and Africa Silk Cotton trees can be found in many Caribbean ...

The star of the Palma Sola Botanical Park right now has to be the red silk-cotton tree. It’s covered in hundreds of huge, brilliantly red, five-petal flowers. Also known as Bombax ceiba ...

FROM TIME immemorial, trees have provided us with two of life’s essentials, food and oxygen. As we evolved, they provided additional necessities such as ...

The group, Tree Walk, were to inspect a Silk Cotton Tree, from which a sap seemed to be perennially oozing out. The day’s walk was titled ‘The Weeping Silk Cotton’. The green stretch along ...

This was cut down later after a tragic incident said to be caused by spirits inhabiting the tree. Distribution of the silk cotton (Ceiba pentandra), also known as Kapok, is fragmented across our ...