Kapok is not a kind of cotton, but the seed fiber of Malvaceae and Gossypium. Kapok belongs to kapok family and kapok genus, which are completely different. Cotton is one of the most important crops in the world, which is suitable for making all kinds of clothing, furniture and industrial cloth. Kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou, Kaohsiung, Chongzuo and Panzhihua. Flowers are backward, colorful under the trees, and flowers do not fade.

Introduction of cotton

Cotton is panicum miliaceum, with a height of 0.6 ~ 1.5m, sparse branchlets, oval leaves, a diameter of 5 ~ 12cm, nearly equal length and width or wider, and a heart-shaped or heart-shaped truncated shape at the base.

The cotton capsule is ovoid, 3.5~5 cm long, with beak and 3~4 cells; The seeds are separated, oval, with long white cotton wool and short gray cotton wool that is not easy to peel off. The flowering period is summer and autumn.

Introduction of kapok

Kapok is a deciduous tree, the height of which can reach 25 meters, the bark is gray, and the trunk of young trees usually has conical thick thorns; The branches spread flat. Palmately compound leaves with 5-7 leaflets, oblong to oblong-lanceolate.