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Kapok tree
Kapok tree can refer to several plants:
  • Bombax ceiba, an Asian tree with red flowers
  • Calotropis procera, a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but a weed in other places
  • Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre
  • Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
    • Cochlospermum gillivraei
    • Cochlospermum fraseri

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