Two-name method: kapok kapok Linnaeus; DC kapok
Latin scientific name: Bombax ceibaLinnaeusDC kapok.
Cotton is nicknamed "Banzhi Tree", "Hero Tree" and "Panzhihua". Native to India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou, and the flower language is to cherish the people around you and happiness. Kapok not only has beautiful flowers, but also has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. It can be used to make soup, whether fresh or dry.
Products tend to shrink into balls. Calyx cup-shaped, thick leathery, 2 ~ 2~ 100px in length, 1.5 ~ 75 px in diameter, 3-or 5-lobed at the top, round and obtuse, with round lobes; The outer surface is brown with longitudinal wrinkles, and the inner surface is short brown fluff. 5 petals, ovoid-obovate or lanceolate, 3 ~ 200 px long and1.5 ~ 87.5 px wide; The outer surface is light brown or light brown, densely covered with stellate hairs, and the inner surface is purple brown with sparse hairs. Stamens are numerous, the base is tubular, the outermost whorls are 5 bundles, and the stigma is 5-lobed. Slight breath, light taste, slightly sweet and slightly astringent.
Main producing areas, distributed in Hainan, Taiwan Province, Guangxi, Yunnan and southern Sichuan; Guangdong and south of central Fujian are widely planted. India, zhina Peninsula, Malaysia to tropical Australia.