kapok

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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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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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