Kapok tree

Kapok tree can refer to several plants with seeds that grow long hairs:

• Bombax ceiba, an Asian tree with red flowers
• Calotropis procera, a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but a weed in other places
• Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre
• Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
  • Cochlospermum gillivraei
  • Cochlospermum fraseri

For the children's book, see The Great Kapok Tree.