Kapok
ಊರು ಹತ್ತಿಮರसेमरஇலவம்பஞ்சு மரம்
Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 55 m
- wide
- 45 m
Malvaceae
Formerly Bombax cumanense, Bombax guineense, Bombax inerme, Bombax mompoxense, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 55 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 60–60 m; Plants For A Future 50–50 m
- Spread
- 45 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 60–60 m; Plants For A Future 30–30 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Hindi
- सेमर
- Tamil
- இலவம்பஞ்சு மரம், இலவம் பஞ்சு மரம்
- Telugu
- తెల్లబూరుగ
- Kannada
- ಊರು ಹತ್ತಿಮರ
- Bangla
- শ্বেত শিমুল, সাদা শিমুল
- Malayalam
- പഞ്ഞീലവ്, ശീമപ്പൂള, മുള്ളില്ലാപ്പൂള
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Ceiba pentandra (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.