Shaving Brush Tree
বুরুশ ছদ্মশিমুল
Pseudobombax ellipticum (Kunth) Dugand
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Malvaceae
Formerly Bombax ellipticum
When it flowers
Flowers January to April in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Caudex treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Nicaragua, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Banana passionfruitFlowers May to December, when this does not
Bengal clock vineFlowers May to December, when this does not
Bitter MelonFlowers May to December, when this does not
Bleeding heart vineFlowers May to December, when this does not
Blue Trumpet VineFlowers May to December, when this does not
BougainvilleaFlowers May to December, when this does not
In other languages (8)
- Spanish
- Coquito, Lele, Cabellos de ángel
- root
- chie-nita, fuibiku, K'uyche, Chak k´uyché, chucté, k´ux´ché
- Czech
- pseudobombax mexický
- Japanese
- メキシコキワタ
- Chinese (China)
- 龟甲木棉
- Russian
- Ложнобомбакс эллиптический
- Chinese
- 龟纹木棉
- Bangla
- বুরুশ ছদ্মশিমুল
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pseudobombax ellipticum (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.