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Kapok Tree
Bombax ceiba L.

kingdom Plantae - plants »  divisio Magnoliophyta - flowering plants »  class Rosopsida - eudicots »  order Malvales »  family Malvaceae »  genus Bombax - cottontree

Scientific synonyms

Bombax aculeatum L.
Melaleuca grandiflora Blanco
Bombax malabaricum DC.
Salmalia malabarica (DC.) Schott & Endl.
Bombax quinatum Jacq.
Pachira quinata (Jacq.) W.S. Alverson
Pochota quinata (Jacq.) W.D. Stevens
Bombacopsis quinata (Jacq.) Dugand
Gossampinus rubra Buch.-Ham.
Bombax thorelii Gagnep.

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Other names

= Bombax
= Red Silk Cotton Tree

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IUCN category 2024-1:
Vulnerable VU  as Bombacopsis quinata
IUCN category 2024-1:
Least Concern LC

Images

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Zita Bukovská

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Zita Bukovská

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Forest & Kim Starr

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Michael Kesl

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Forest & Kim Starr

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Forest & Kim Starr

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Michael Kesl

Bombax ceiba - Kapok Tree

Author: Forest & Kim Starr

Intertaxon relationships

consumer: Xystrocera globosa (Olivier, 1800) - Two-lined Albizia Longhorn, Trirachys holosericeus (Fabricius, 1787) - United Provinces Sál Longicorn, Glenea spilota Thomson, 1860, Glenea homospila Thomson, 1865, Neoplocaederus ferrugineus (Linnaeus, 1792), ...

consumer (larval stage only): Marumba dyras dyras (Walker, 1865), Eupterote gardneri Bryk, 1950

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Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [32905]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Bombacopsis quinata (Jacq.) Dugand]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [61781914]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Bombax ceiba L.]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN PLANTS Database [BOCE2]

PLANTS Database [http://plants.usda.gov]
EN Kew Science - Plants of the World online 2024-05 [559120-1]

Kew Science - Plants of the World online [https://powo.science.kew.org], Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [as Bombax ceiba L.]
Data retrieved on: 1 February 2025
EN C. Ulloa et al. (2017): An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas, Science. 358. 1614-1617 [as Pachira quinata W.S. Alverson]
Data retrieved on: 19 September 2019
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