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Bombax
Bombax is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and the subtropical regions of East Asia and northern Australia. It is distinguished from the genus Ceiba, which has whiter flowers.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Red Silk Cotton Tree
speciesBombax ceiba
red kapok tree
speciesBombax costatum
Bombax insigne
speciesBombax insigne
Ngiu paa
speciesBombax anceps
Bombax buonopozense
speciesBombax buonopozense
Bombax paraense
speciesBombax paraense
Bombax albidum
speciesBombax albidum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.76
Garden of Health
1507 · p.62
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.76
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.185
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68314.