Malvaceae Week: Ceiba pentandra from Delhi
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Gurcharan Singh
5 Sept 2011, 9:34:55 pm05/09/11
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Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn., Fruct. sem. pl. 2:244. 1791
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
Syn: Bombax pentandrum L. ; Ceiba caribaea (DC.) A. Chev.; Ceiba casearia Medik.; Eriodendron anfractuosum DC.
Common names: kapok, kapoktree, silk-cottontree, white silk-cottontree
Large deciduous tree with spiny trunk; leaves palmate compound with 5-7 oblong-lanceolate leaflets; flowers usually opening before leaves, rose or white, tomentose outside; stamens 5, united at base into tube; capsules fusiform, 10-25 cm long; seeds many embedded in wool.
Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
Balkar Arya
6 Sept 2011, 9:20:11 am06/09/11
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Nice shot of fruits--
Regards
Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964
Regards
Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964
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