Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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5026.000 Ceiba
CHORISIA Kunth
Description of the genus
Trees, often with swollen bottle-shaped trunks, these often spiny and coloured green. Worldwide: 11 species in tropical America, one extending to Africa. Zimbabwe: 3 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| insignis (Kunth) P.E. Gibbs & Semir | Description, Image |
| pentandra (L.) Gaertn. | Description, Image |
| speciosa (A. St.-Hil.) Ravenna | Image |
Other sources of information about Ceiba:
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CeibaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ceiba
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ceiba
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Ceiba
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Ceiba
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ceiba
JSTOR Plant Science: Ceiba
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ceiba
Plants of the World Online: Ceiba
Tropicos: Ceiba
Wikipedia: Ceiba
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