Silk-cotton tree
Bombax flower
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malvales Family: Bombacaceae Genus: Bombax
Species
Bombax buonopozense Bombax campestre Bombax ceiba Bombax gracilipes Bombax insigne Bombax pubescens Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Pteridophyta - ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... It has been suggested that Angiospermae, and Anthophyta be merged into this article or section. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families Malvaceae (mallows,...) Dipterocarpaceae Sarcolaenaceae Cistaceae Muntingiaceae Bixaceae Diegodendraceae Cochlospermaceae Sphaerosepalaceae Thymelaeaceae Neuradaceae The Malvales are an order of flowering plants, mostly comprised of shrubs and trees. ... Adansonia – Baobab Bombax – Silk_cotton tree Ceiba – Kapok Durio – Durian Ochroma – Balsa The Bombacaceae is a family of tropical trees in the order Malvales, closely related to the mallow family (Malvaceae), and often included in it, being distinguishable from that family only by the smooth pollen... Binomial name Bombax ceiba L. Synonyms Bombax malabaricum DC. Bombax ceiba, like other tree from genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree or tree cotton. ...

Bombax is a genus of three to eight species of trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian Subcontinent, tropical Southeast Asia, northern Australia, and tropical Africa. Common names include silk cotton trees, semul, simul, simal, red cotton trees, or Indian kapok trees. Satellite image of the Indian subcontinent Map of South Asia (see note) This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa. ...

Bombax species are among the largest trees in their regions, reaching 30-40 m tall and up to 3 m trunk diameter. The leaves are dry-season deciduous, 30-50 cm across, palmate, with 5-9 leaflets. They bear red flowers between January and March, which mature into small husks containing a fibre, similar to kapok (Ceiba pentandra) and to cotton, though with shorter fibres than cotton, that does not lend itself to spinning, making it unusable as a textile product. For other uses, see Tree (disambiguation). ... “Foliage” redirects here. ... Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... A Phalaenopsis flower A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ... Binomial name Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. ... Cotton ready for harvest. ... For the meaning of fiber in nutrition, see dietary fiber. ...

They are also planted domestically and for reforestation of cleared areas.

Bombax species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix crateracma which feeds exclusively on Bombax ceiba. A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... Superfamilies Butterflies Hesperioidea Papilionoidea Moths Acanthopteroctetoidea Alucitoidea Axioidea Bombycoidea Calliduloidea Choreutoidea Cossoidea Drepanoidea Epermenioidea Eriocranioidea Galacticoidea Gelechioidea Geometroidea Gracillarioidea Hedyloidea Hepialoidea Heterobathmioidea Hyblaeoidea Immoidea Incurvarioidea Lasiocampoidea Lophocoronoidea Micropterigoidea Mimallonoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Neopseustoidea Nepticuloidea Noctuoidea Palaephatoidea Pterophoroidea Pyraloidea Schreckensteinioidea Sesioidea Simaethistoidea Thyridoidea Tineoidea Tischerioidea Tortricoidea Urodoidea Whalleyanoidea Yponomeutoidea Zygaenoidea The order Lepidoptera... Bucculatricidae is a family of moths. ... Binomial name Bombax ceiba L. Synonyms Bombax malabaricum DC. Bombax ceiba, like other tree from genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree or tree cotton. ...

There is a beautiful Silk-Cotton Bombax specimen in the Lal Bagh gardens in Bangalore, India, quite probably the largest and oldest in the world. Tour guides for the Lal Bagh gardens claim that this is the oldest living tree in the world, a title that most experts agree belongs to a Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California. Bangalore (proposed to be renamed Bengalooru or Bengaluru) (Kannada: ; pronunciation: in Kannada and in English) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. ... Species Pinus aristata Pinus longaeva Pinus balfouriana The bristlecone pines are a small group of pine trees (Family Pinaceae, genus Pinus, subsection Balfourianae) that can reach an age far greater than that of any other single living organism known, up to nearly 5,000 years. ...

Los Angeles, California has many Silk-Cotton Bombax trees planted in parks and along streets and highways. The Huntington Gardens north of LA have many specimens both in the gardens, and also in the parking lot.

External links

• Germplasm Resources Information Network: Bombax
• Haryana Online: Semul
• Abasar (in Bengali)