White Silk Cotton Tree - Kapok - Exotic Tree / Bonsai - Ceiba pentandra - 5 Seeds Rare It is named after the

It is named after the ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides

The staminate (pollen-producing or male) flowers are in hanging catkins

but will grow to over 500kgs

Cassini changed the specific epithet

White Silk Cotton Tree - Kapok - Exotic Tree / Bonsai - Ceiba pentandra - 5 Seeds Rare It is named after theCeiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var. guineensis) to tropical west Africa. A somewhat smaller variety is found throughout southern Asia and the East Indies. Kapok is the most used common name for the tree and may also refer to the cotton like