kapok tree

noun5

1. •
   Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.

   • Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day. — 1998
2. •
   The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.

   • The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree. — 2015
3. •
   Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
4. •
   Cochlospermum gillivraei
5. •
   Cochlospermum fraseri