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Stem & Root Anatomy
... ; 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 ...
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Plant Fibers
... 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 ... massive buttressed trunk. The floss silk tree (Chorisia speciosa), another member of the kapok family (Bombacaceae) also produces seed capsules lined with masses of silky hairs. This ...
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Vegetative Terminology (Part 2)
... settlers. Trunk of the floss silk tree (Chorisia speciosa), a tropical American tree in the kapok family (Bombacaceae). The sharp-pointed, woody outgrowths from the trunk are technically called thorns rather ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... . Catalpa, Jacaranda, Pittosporum, Aesculus, Agave, Yucca, Eucalyptus, devil's claw (Proboscidea), floss silk tree (Chorisia), kapok tree (Ceiba) and castor bean (Ricinus communis). Capsules may split open along the locules (loculicidal ...
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Wood/Plant Fiber Crossword
... fiber indigenous to the Philippine Islands. 23. North American plant used as a substitute for kapok during World War II. 25. Plant fiber made into lustrous China grass cloth. 27. Dry ...
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Stranglers & Banyans
... are often held in the ample shade of a giant fig tree or a huge kapok (Ceiba pentandra). Strangler fig (possibly Ficus aurea) wrapped around palm trunk that was washed ashore ...
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