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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.
Silk-cotton tree

Ceiba pentandra
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Family: Malvaceae

Group: Dicot

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Tree

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: The West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America; introduced into the Old World.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

Comments: Spontaneous after cultivation nearly throughout the Archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).

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Other data on Ceiba pentandra available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants

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Ceiba pentandra
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Ceiba pentandra
Copyright by: Rosimar Rivera