Common name: Floss-silk Tree, Kapok

Botanical Name: Ceiba speciosa ( = Chorisia speciosa )

Family: Bombacaceae , now merged under Malvaceae (Hibiscus Family)

In the flower of silkfloss there is a distinct corona.  It lies at the base of the staminal tube. It is a cream-coloured bell-like or vase-like structure with a maroon or dark-red-lobed  rim covered with fuzzy white hairs. It appears like a distinct wheel. The hair were fixed on the slide to see ribbon-like strips with a distinct wavy margin through foldscope.

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