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RED SILK-COTTON FLOWER #2 / (Bengali = শিমুল)

A Jungle Crow aka Large-billed Crow is picking on open flowers of the Red Silk-Cotton Tree

Corvus macrohynchos culminatus / Family Corvidae

Bombax ceiba

Family Malvaceae

Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

 

Synonym: Bombax malabaricum

 

Note: The Family has been re-classified from Bombacaceae to Malvaceae.

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Uploaded on May 16, 2011
Taken on February 1, 2008