Cultivated
A deciduous tree ; up to 18 m tall or more , with straight trunk and a broad-spreading , somewhat flattened crown . Stems glabrous or pubescent ; older often spiny ; bark pale grey , smooth , usually with scattered conical spines . Leaves 5–9-foliolate , glabrous ; leaflets narrowly elliptic-obovate , entire , acuminate , glabrous , petiolate . Inflorescences in 1–15-flowered axillary clusters . Flowers white , often on leafless branches ; petals pink or white , oblong ; ovary glabrous or nearly so . Fruit capsule , ± woody , loculicidal , smooth , brown , oblong-ellipsoid . Seeds c . 6 mm across , many , subglobose , dark brown , embedded in copious white or greyish silky wool . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
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Kapok
Kapok Tree
Silk-cotton
Silk-cotton Tree
Java cotton
Ceiba
Java Kapok
Samauma
Not used traditionally. However, in Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2003) wrote that: "These are collected by local people and used as filling for cushions". (Ref. Flora of Oman; vol.1).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
