632. Young Leaves and Flowers and Fruit of Cotton tree

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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
Copyright © RBG KEW
Media ID 5137813
Date: 30th June 2011
Filename: MN_632-004440LA090601_00102.jpg
Image Size: 5640 x 8820 Pixels
Filesize is 29.22MB
Associated Categories: Marianne North
Keywords: art, artist, cotton tree, flower, fruit, leaves, marianne north, painting, white, yellow