Kapok tree

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Kapok tree can refer to several plants – Malvales with one exception – with seeds that grow long hairs:

• Bombax ceiba, an Asian tree with red flowers
• Calotropis procera (Asterid), a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but a weed in other places
• Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre
• Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
  • Cochlospermum gillivraei
  • Cochlospermum fraseri

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