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Kapok
... to be sure, they belong to closely related families, but cotton can be woven into cloth, whereas kapok has been used mainly as stuffing, as in life jackets, pillows, and mattresses and is not manufactured ... bases for baseball. During World War II, U.S. sailors often referred to the life jacket as "kapok." At least since World War II, synthetic fibers have pretty much replaced any traditional uses of ...
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Hunt Institute: Charles Fletcher Swingle
... served as assistant director of War Hemp Industries, Inc., Milkweed Floss Division, in Petoskey, Michigan. His objective was to collect milkweed pods for servicemen’s life jackets, as the kapok supply in the Dutch East Indies had been cut off by the Japanese. Swingle supervised the nationwide collection of pods by schoolchildren and others and enlisted the cooperation of various agriculture- ...
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Stem & Root Anatomy
... leaf venation; contains the most species of flowering herbs, shrubs and trees; includes roses (Rosa), buttercups (Ranunculus), clover (Trifolium), maple (Acer), basswood (Tilia), oak (Quercus), willow (Salix), kapok (Ceiba) and many more species. Gymnosperms: Plants With Naked Seeds Gymnosperms include pines (Pinus), spruce (Picea), fir (Abies), hemlock (Tsuga) and false hemlock (Pseudotsuga). ...
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Plant Fibers
... hirsutum Gossypium arboreum Gossypium herbaceum Gossypium barbadense Malvaceae (Mallow) Coir Cocos nucifera Arecaceae (Palm) Milkweed Asclepias spp. Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed) Fibers From Seed Pods (Dicots) Kapok Ceiba pentandra Bombacaceae (Bombax) Floss Silk Chorisia speciosa Bombacaceae (Bombax) Devil's Claw Proboscidea parviflora Martyniaceae (Martynia) Fibers From Seeds And Seed Pods Cotton " ...
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APSnet Education Center - Introductions to the Major Pathogen Groups - Introduction to Parasitic Flowering Plants
... , introduced to Florida. Loranthaceae Agelanthus spp. shea butter (karit) (Vitellaria) Burkina Faso Amyema spp. Eucalyptus Australia Tapinanthus bangwensis cacao (Theobroma), etc. Africa Dendrophthoe spp. kapok (Ceiba), etc. Asia Phthirusa spp. rubber (Hevea), teak (Tectona) Central & South America Psittacanthus spp. Citrus Mexico Struthanthus spp. Coffea, Citrus, etc. Central & South America ...
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Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -- O
... balsa are put in with the dye (Genipa) to stabilize the mixture (!). The nuchus or medicine statues of the Cuna are usually carved of balsa (!). Some Indians (e.g., in Peru) coat blowgun darts with balsa kapok as a balancer, and to seal the tube of the blowgun (!). OCIMUM BASILICUM L.: Sweet basil (E); Albaca (CR,D); Albahaca (CR,CR/ROC); Albahaca fina (P); Pisep (Cu) . The edible mucilaginous ...
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Glasshouses - Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
... such as Fittonia are familiar as house plants since they tolerate low light levels. The tall tree species include economic species such as Hevea brasiliensis (rubber), Swietenia sp (mahogany) and Cabomba (kapok). The magnificent Ficus benjamina with its skirt of aerial roots is commonly grown in its juvenile state as a house plant. Shrubs include Cinchona from which the anti-malarial drug quinine ...
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Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation
... Program, Ecuador 2006 Summer Course spots Crested Eagle, Pygmy Marmosets Visit New Lalo Loor Web Tour Biological Surveys Add Orchids, Birds to Lalo Loor Species Lists Download and Read Kapok, our 2005 Newsletter Private Lands Conservation Strategy Published in Orchid Journal Ceiba Offers Careware - Software that Supports Conservation New Trails Open at Lalo Loor Dry Forest Reserve View all Updates ...
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CFTC - The Genus Ceiba - Ceiba Tree Information
... canopy! Uses Ceibas have had a long commercial history. During the 1940s the fluff, or kapok, that surrounds the seeds was harvested commercially for stuffing life preservers, seat cushions, mattresses and ... the 1900's, nearly every stuffed life preserver and upholstered automobile seat was filled with kapok fibers. The tree was cultivated in large plantations in Southeast Asia, not only for its ...
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Copper Tree Health Consulting
... be very insensitive because they are so focused on themselves that they miss the cues and needs of other people around them. They can be very self centred. $12.25 CAD Kapok Bush {Cochlospermum fraseri} Positive Outcome: Persistence, willingness to give it a go, application. Negative Condition: Easily discouraged, resignation, apathy. Mount Barnett, an Aboriginal Cattle Station on the rugged Gibb ...
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