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Cotton tree
Bombax ceiba
21.064, 92.1533
Field Notes
Description:
About 10 to 15 m tall deciduous tree. I actually never saw it with leaves... Floral buds presented in pics 1 and 2, and non-mature fruits in pics 3 and 4. I guess it was not the season for large, five-petaled flowers, but they can be seen in my spotting from Myanmar last year: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1829430498
Habitat:
Very common, ubiquitous all around Cox's Bazar district, both in urban and rural settings.
Notes:
Fruits are not edible, but they produce an interesting cotton-like material I'm not sure how it is used. Flowers are edible and appreciated raw, as a salad, or cooked in soups and curries, or dried and used for teas nd soups.
Reference Links:
Bombax ceiba - Wikipedia
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PublishedApril 7, 2019
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