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The silk floss tree (Ceiba speciosa, formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America. It has a host of local common names, such as palo borracho (in Spanish literally "drunken tree"). It belongs to the same family as the baobab and the kapok. Another tree of the Ceiba genus, C. chodatii, often receives the same common names.The natural habitat of the floss silk tree is the north-east of Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. It is resistant to drought and moderate cold. It grows fast in spurts when water is abundant, and sometimes reaches more than 25 m in height. Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third, measuring up to 2 m in girth. It is studded with thick conical prickles which serve to store water for dry times. In younger trees, the trunk is green due to its high chlorophyll content, which makes it capable of performing photosynthesis when leaves are absent; with age it turns to gray.The branches tend to be horizontal and are also covered with prickles. The leaves are composed of five to seven long leaflets.The flowers are creamy-whitish in the center and pink towards the tips of their five petals. They measure 10-15 cm in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. Their nectar is known to attract insects such as monarch butterflies, which perform pollination. C. speciosa flowers are in bloom between February and May. The flowers of the related C. chodatii are similar in form and size, but their color goes from creamy white centers to yellow tips.
The fruits are lignous ovoid pods, 20 cm long, which contain bean-sized black seeds surrounded by a mass of fibrous, fluffy matter reminiscent of cotton or silk.
Ceiba speciosa (in passato nota come Chorisia speciosa, è un albero della famiglia delle Bombacaceae).La fibra bianca e lanosa contenuta nei frutti, nota come "falso kapok", viene utilizzata per realizzare imbottiture. La caratteristica principale della C. speciosa è nel tronco, rigonfio nella parte inferiore e munito di grosse spine coniche. In natura può raggiungere i 20 m di altezza. I tessuti alla base del fusto accumulano acqua per i periodi di siccità.Ha foglie composte, formate da 5-7 foglioline glabre.I fiori, ermafroditi, sono grandi e appariscenti, con petali rosei o rossi nella parte superiore, screziati di bruno-giallognolo nella parte inferiore. Fiorisce da ottobre a novembre.
Il frutto è una grossa capsula ovoidale di colore verde-bruno, con un esocarpo molto spesso, contenente numerosi semi avvolti da una fitta lanugine bianca.
L'areale naturale di C. speciosa comprende la fascia del continente sudamericano compresa tra 12°S e 30°S di latitudine.La specie è presente in Brasile, Paraguay, ma è soprattutto l'Argentina, ove è nota come palo borracho (“albero ubriaco”), ad essere ricca di questi curiosi alberi.È coltivata nelle regioni tropicali e subtropicali dell'emisfero nord, sino alle Antille e al sud degli Stati Uniti.Sul finire del XIX secolo è stata introdotta in Italia all'orto botanico di Palermo; da li si è diffusa come pianta ornamentale.
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Surin island Thailand.
A huge tree flows onto the beach and into sunset waters. I sat there listening to the waters lapping gently onto the sand and the loud whistle like sound from the bush behind me.
Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort Paris.
Christmas Season 2010.
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Testimony of the Tree
For a hundred years I breathe and live, the flower of beauty and the bread of kindness.
I am your friendly shade in the noonday heat of summer, and I stand pencilled against the winter twilight, a silhouette for dreams. At dawning in the spring I am filled with song, the host to a thousand birds, and I decorate the autumn with pageantry and colour.
Then comes the woodsman with his axe.
And still I serve.
I am the timber that builds your boat; the rafters of your cathedrals; the choirstalls of your church enriched by the magic of the carver's fingers. I am the beam that holds your house; the door of your homestead, and the lintel too. I am the handle of your hoe; the wood of your cradle; the bed on which you lie; the board of your table and the board for your bread.
When I am living, harm me not.
When I am dead, respect me and use me kindly.
Author Anon