The tree is cultivated for kapok. While still on the tree, the fruits burst open exposing the cotton like substance, which is the kapok of commerce.
Common/English NameCeiba, Cotton Silk Tree, Corkwood, Cotton Tree, Cottonwood Tree, Java Cotton, Kapok, Java Kapok, Kapoktree, Kapok Tree, Silk Cotton Tree, White Silk Cotton Tree, Silk- Cottontree, White-Flowered Silk-Cotton Tree, White Silk-Cottontree Name in Other LanguagesArabic:Rum (Chad...
We found that Comoé chimpanzees peel the bark of the buttresses of kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) trees to eat the cambium underneath. Individuals of all sex/age classes across at least six neighboring communities peeled the bark, but only during the late rainy season and beginning of the dry...
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tree. Also, exudates of gummy mucilage flow from hole down the trunk of the tree (Fig. 14.9). These symptoms make damages caused byE. myrmeleonpeculiar to cocoa and give idea of extent of damage on cocoa becoming a major pest status. These damages lead to drop in fruit production, ...
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Kapok is a gigantic tropical tree and the seed-hair fibers obtained from its fruit. Common throughout the tropics, the kapok is native to the New World and to Africa and was transported to Asia, where it is cultivated for its fiber, or floss.