The kapok tree can be up to 25 meters high with grayish-white bark.

Kapok family, genus Kapok, tropical subtropical deciduous large trees, generally 10-20 meters high, up to 25 meters, the trunk of young trees usually have cone-shaped thick spines; branching spreading.

Introduction of the kapok tree

The kapok tree, also known as Phanerogamma, Molien, Red Jasmine, Molien flower, Cottonwood, Spotted Mangrove, is a deciduous large tree growing in the tropical and subtropical regions, 10-20 meters high. Cottonwood tree is a deciduous tree of the family Bombacaceae. Origin is unknown, widely distributed in tropical areas, Taiwan in 1645 introduced commonly planted.

Palmately compound leaves, leaflets 5 to 7, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 16 centimeters long, 3.5 to 5.5 centimeters wide, apical acuminate, base broad or attenuate, entire, both surfaces are glabrous, pinnate lateral veins 15 to 17 pairs, uplifted, between which there is a thinner class 2 lateral veins, reticulation veins are very fine and dense, the two surfaces are slightly convex; petiole 10 to 20 centimeters; petiolules 1.5 to 4 centimeters; stipules small.

Flowers solitary in apical leaf axils of branches, usually red, sometimes orange-red, ca. 10 cm across; calyx cup-shaped, 2-3 cm long, glabrous outside, densely yellowish sericeous, calyx teeth 3-5, semiorbicular, 1.5 cm high, 2.3 cm wide, petals fleshy, obovate-oblong, 8-10 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, stellate pilose on both surfaces but sparsely so on the inner surfaces; androgynophore short, filaments thicker. The staminal tube is short, and the filaments are thicker.