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English Name (英文名)----Tree Cotton, Red Kapok Tree
Chinese Name (中文名)---木棉
Family Name (科名) -----Bombacaceae (木棉科)
Habit (習性)----Deciduous tree
Scientific Name: Bombax ceiba
Family: ：Red Silk Cotton Tree
Size,Range&Distribution：Bombacaceae -- Kapok Tree Family
Botanical Description: To 75' or more, spiny trunk. Native to India and dry areas of Asia and Australia. Fast grower from cuttings; can reach up to 140'.
Botanical Description: Roots become strongly buttressed with age. Waxy flower petal are lustrous, red, long, and recurved, stamens are many in two whorls. Birds seek nectar and are pollinators. Usually deciduous. Leaves alternate, palmately compound. Flowers are clustered near the ends of the branches. Fruits is a five-celled woody capsule with many small seeds embedded in floss.
Economic Examples: Tree is grown for its wood on large plantations in India. The floss is commercially important; four-* kilos can be obtained from each tree to be used for life belts, cushions, refrigeration insulation, sound proofing. Yarn can be made for plush and lace. In China, it's woven into garments. Flower buds and calyx are edible. Seed oil is used in the manufacture of soaps and lubrication substances. Tree exudes a gum high in tannin used to halt diarrhea and dysentery.
General Comments: Wood is easy to work and is used in many manufactures.
木棉
生活型: 喬木
栽培植物: 栽培
特征: 落葉大喬木；
花期: 3
果期: 5
生境: 栽培
用途: 庭園、行道樹種；木材可作蒸籠、包裝箱、火柴桿、造紙等用；鮮枝能攪濁水澄清；根、皮代海桐皮用，治痢疾及月經過多；果內綿毛可作枕、褥墊、救生圈等填充材料；種子油供工業用
門中名: 種子植物門
亞門中名: 被子植物亞門
綱中名: 雙子葉植物綱
中文別名: 紅棉、英雄樹
燦若紅霞的賽波花，賽波樹屬木本豆莢科植物，主要分布在中南美地區。在西班牙殖民統治時期，拉普拉塔地區的印第安人不斷奮起反抗。
傳說在一次戰斗中，一位印第安部落酋長不幸陣亡，她的女兒阿娜依挺身而出，指揮戰斗，與西班牙殖民者浴血死戰，最后她也被俘。西班牙殖民者將阿娜依綁在一棵賽波樹上，要用火燒死她。阿娜依在熊熊的大火中慷慨就義。此時，花期未到的樹上突然盛開出滿枝累串的，如火如血的紅花。1942年，阿根廷通過一項法令,正式確定賽波花為阿根廷的國花
