Kapok tree

For the children's book, see The Great Kapok Tree.

Kapok tree can refer to several plants with seeds that grow long hairs:

Bombax ceiba, an Asian tree with red flowers
Calotropis procera, a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but a weed in other places
Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre
Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
- Cochlospermum gillivraei
- Cochlospermum fraseri

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