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Floss silk tree (Ceiba speciosa) in bloom : (pix Sanjiv Shukla) #274949591
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Floss silk tree (Ceiba speciosa), (formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a tree that is native to tropical and subtropical forests of South America. It belongs to the family Malvaceae. Flowers are creamy-whitish in the center and pink toward the tips of their five petals. Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third and is studded with thick, sharp conical prickles. In younger trees, the trunk is green due to its high chlorophyll content, which makes it capable of performing photosynthesis when leaves are absent.