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This family of large tropical trees comprises 20 genera and 180 species, mostly originating from the Americas. The leaves are palmately divided and the flowers have 5 sepals and 5 petals. The seeds are often embedded in cottony hairs in a large capsule. Some species have trunks adapted for storing water and Adansonia digitata, the Baobab, is the best known of these.

Subcategories

• Adansonia
• Bombacopsis
• Bombax
• Ceiba
• Chorisia
• Durio
• Fremontodendron
• Kokia
• Lagunaria
• Ochroma
• Pachira
• Pseudobombax

Resources in This Category

• Bombacaceae

  http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/bombacac.htm
  Botanical description of this family of trees with technical drawings of Bombax.

 

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