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Kapok
... 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 as thread or fabric. Kapok was also widely used in 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 ...
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Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants - Photo Gallery
... Photograph [30k] Description Clematis gentianoides Bushy clematis Photograph [55k] Description Cochlospermum gillivraei Kapok Photograph [17k] Description Cochlospermum gillivraei: Tree Kapok Photograph [61k] Description Commelina cyanea Scurvy weed Photograph [26k] Description Comesperma ericinum ...
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Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants - Photo Gallery
... Old man's beard Clematis gentianoides Bushy clematis Photo: Cas Liber Cochlospermum gillivraei Kapok Photo: Keith Townsend Cochlospermum gillivraei Kapok Photo: Keith Townsend Comesperma ericinum Heath milkwort Commelina cyanea Scurvy weed [< Previous ...
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Hunt Institute: Charles Fletcher Swingle
... , 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 ...
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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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APSnet Education Center - Introductions to the Major Pathogen Groups - Introduction to Parasitic Flowering Plants
... (Figure 35) on cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Africa, Dendrophthoe pentandra (Figure 36) on kapok (Ceiba pentandra) in Java, Phthirusa sp. (Figure 37) on teak (Tectona grandis) ... 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 ...
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Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -- K
... is said to hasten suppuration. Kana: Piper (Cu) Kanabuchuru: Solanum (Cu) Kapekwa: Mimosa (Cu) Kapok: Ceiba (E) KAPOK: A soft downy substance used for stuffing pillows, etc. Ceiba, Cochlospermum, Gossypium, Ochroma, Pseudobombax ...
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Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary -- O
... 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 ...
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UNI Hamburg - BzF - Botanischer Garten - Grüne Schule
... Der Faserkoffer stellt jene Nutzpflanzen vor, aus denen Fasern gewonnen werden. Dazu gehören Baumwolle, Arenga, Kapok u.v.a.m. Der Koffer enthält eine Menge an Proben und Produkten, aber auch ...
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