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Bombax ceiba

Botanical name :	Bombax ceiba
English name :	Tree Cotton

The whole tree thumbnail 1

Most frequently seen bright red flowerFlowers mostly in bright red thumbnail 2

Not so popular oranger-red flowers thumbnail 3

Rarely seen yellow flowers thumbnail 4

Palmetely compound leave thumbnail 5

Fruit in ellipsoid shape thumbnail 6

Fruits split and show the white woolly filament thumbnail 7

Bark of trunk greyish white, has rivet-shaped, thick, conical spines thumbnail 8