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Ceiba pentandra

Scientific Name
Ceiba pentandra
Family Name
Bombacaceae
Common Names
Stem white silk cotton, true kapok
Local Names
Shetsimul, kapok (Bangladesh), Safed-simul (India), Kapok, buboi(Philippines), Kotta (Sri Lanka)
Description
A medium-sized deciduous tree with broad buttress-based trunk and horizontalwhorled branches. Leaves digitately compound, deciduous, flowers white, tufted atthe end of branches or axillary appearing before the leaves. Stamens few. Fruitsoblong, 5-valved capsules. Seeds many, obovoid, lustrous, black; silky hairs arisefrom inner wall of the capsule. (India)
A deciduous tree 18-70m tall, trunk with or without buttresses, forked or unforked,spiny or spineless; leaves alternate, digitately compound, leaflets 5-11; flowers 2-15together in axillary fascicles, 5-merous; fruit an ellipsoidal, leathery, pendulouscapsule turning brown when ripe; seed obovoid, dark brown, embedded in white, paleyellow or gray silky wool. (Philippines)
A tall tree with a smooth, greenish-white, glabrous bark and horizontal primarybranches in whorls of three; leaves alternate, digitate or palmate, closely placed onlong petioles leaflets 5 or 7 on short winged stalks, 7.5-17cm long, 1.5-5cm broad,Janceolate, acute at the base, acuminate at apex, entire, glabrous. paler beneathstipules 0.5-1.2cm long, linear-fihiform. deciduous; flowers regular, bisexual, creamywhite, 3.7-5cm diameter, in axiliary clusters of 2-14, appearing with the young leavesat the ends of branches, drooping. pedicels 3.5cm long, bracteoles absent sepals 5.fused into a tubular-campanulate, 5-lobed calyx, about 1.2cm long, lobes shallow,glabrous outside. appressed hairy at the base within petals 5, slightly connate at base,convolute, 4cm long, 1.8cm broad, obovate-oblong, sprea ding, rounded at apex.densely tomentose outside and nearly glabrous within; stamens 5. filaments 3.5cmlong, connate at the base into a fleshy tube adnate to the corolla, longer than petals,erect, anthers large and sinuous; ovary superior, globular, glabrous, 5-Jocular withnumerous ovules in each loculus, stigma obscurely 5-lobed; fruit-capsule 8.8-10cmlong, surrounded at the base with a persistent calyx, ovoid-fusiform, blunt, dehiscentfrom base upwards by 5 septifragral valves, loculi densely lined with long, silky hairwhich is deciduous seeds glabrous, blackish, each surrounded by a copious mass ofcotton.Flowers from January to March. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Astringent, bowel, diuretic, tonic, alteratives, laxative, diabetes (Bangladesh)
Dysentery, gonorrhea, styptic, diarrhoea, anodyne, menorrhagia, emollient,haemorrhoids (India)
Tuberculosis (Philippines)
Laxative, stone in bladder, urethritis, gonorrhea, aphrodisiac, asthma, astringent,catarrh, intestinal, constipation, cough, diarrhoea, diuretic, eye disease, haemorrhoids,laxative, liver ailments, ophthalmia, purgative, ringworms (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Philippines - LBES Medicinal Genebank, ERDB
Sri Lanka - Meegahak, Haldummu
Remarks
Ceiba pentandra (GRIN)

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