silk-cotton

These kapok or silk-cotton trees belong to the Bombax family, Bombacaceae, which includes many fascinating, handsome and much admired trees.

Did You Know? Mexico's kapok trees aided the U.S. war effort 2008

The Mapou tree is known in English as either a silk-cotton tree or a Ceiba tree.

Sacred Avatar "Hometree" is the Mapou Tree in Haitian Vodun 2010

These kapok or silk-cotton trees belong to the Bombax family, Bombacaceae, which includes many fascinating, handsome and much admired trees.

Did You Know? Mexico's kapok trees aided the U.S. war effort 2008

The Mapou tree is known in English as either a silk-cotton tree or a Ceiba tree.

Printing: Sacred Avatar "Hometree" is the Mapou Tree in Haitian Vodun 2010

Unexpectedly Joao fired a burst at the nearest silk-cotton tree and yelled with glee as a section of the emaciated trunk disappeared in a cloud of splinters.

Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

Mr. Olch launched his eponymous line of handmade bow and straight ties in linen, seersucker, wool and silk-cotton blends two years ago and saw his goods quickly picked up by Bergdorf Goodman and buzzed about in magazines, including GQ and Vanity Fair.

How a Hip Designer Knots -- And Styles -- a Bow Tie 2009

Equatorial Guineathree equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side and the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll with the motto UNIDAD, PAZ, JUSTICIA (Unity, Peace, Justice)

Flag description 2008

But in the distance here and there we can see lines of forest, with the leafless round crown of a 150-foot silk-cotton tree poking up from the canopy like an enormous dandelion gone to seed.

The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007

She is of immense height, and white; perhaps this idea is derived from the white stem of the silk-cotton trees wherein she invariably abides.

Travels in West Africa 2003

This coloured earth identifies a silk-cotton tree as being the residence of a

Travels in West Africa 2003