632. Young Leaves and Flowers and Fruit of Cotton tree
The seeds of Eriodendron anfractuosum, DC. are densely clothed with silky-white hair (Kapok), which is used to stuff pillows, &c.; in Java the trees themselves are used as telegraph posts, as the branches grow so conveniently at right-angles to the trunk that they do not interfere with the wires
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Date: 30th June 2011
© RBG KEW
632. Young Leaves and Flowers and Fruit of Cotton tree
The seeds of Eriodendron anfractuosum, DC. are densely clothed with silky-white hair (Kapok), which is used to stuff pillows, &c.; in Java the trees themselves are used as telegraph posts, as the branches grow so conveniently at right-angles to the trunk that they do not interfere with the wires
© RBG KEW
Media ID 5137813
Artist Flower Fruit Leaves Marianne North Painting White Yellow
Filename: MN_632-004440LA090601_00102.jpg