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Identifier: ornamentaltreeso00rock (find matches)
Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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, after the opening of the flowers the petals curl backwardand expose a mass of pink stamens, which make the flowers exceed-ingly showy. It is a native of South America and is known botani-cally as Bombax ellipticum H. B. K. See Plate LVI. The leaves of this species have five distinctly petioled leafletswhich are prominently nerved underneath. The main petiole isabout ten inches or more long. The tree itself is not ornamental, asit is bare of foliage for a period and is only about fifteen feet inheight with very few branches. Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.Silk Cottox Tree, Kapok.Plate LVI I.Ceiba pentandra differs from its relative Bombax Ceiba L. inits variable columnar trunk with large or often weakly defined but-tresses which are sometimes entirely wanting. It is a tall tree witha straight trunk and is prickly only when young, and branches hori-zontally at right angles to the trunk. The flowers are of a dirtywhite, and much smaller than those of Bombax Ceiba. The flowers Plate LVIII.
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Adansonia digitata Linn, Baobab, Bottle Tree, Monkey-bread. Flowering and fruiting specimen Bombaceae. 145 of Ceiba pentandra have only five staminal bundles with two antherseach, while those of Bombax Ceiba divide into numerous filamentseach with one anther. Ceiba pentandra is distributed from Mexicoto the West Indies and Guiana, all over tropical Africa. East India,and the Malayan Archipelago. In India the tree is usually plantedby the Tamils on the Coromandel coast about their temples. Theflowers appear while the tree is destitute of foliage and are quicklyfollowed by the leaves, while the fruits ripen in May. The Kapok Tree has a white, soft wood, which is very brittleand of no use, except in the manufacture of toys. From the barkof the Kapok Tree an inferior fibre, reddish in color, is sometimesprepared and used in India locally for ropes and paper. The flossfrom the seed is, however, of great merit, and most important com-mercially. The capsules are densely packed with a silky f

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  • booksubject:Trees__Hawaii_
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  • bookcontributor:Pennsylvania_Horticultural_Society__McLean_Library
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