Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. Species

Silk Cotton Tree

Introduced tree species. Casual, cultivated.

Other common names

Kapok en, Kapoktree en.

Distribution

American Samoa, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Chad, China (Hong Kong, Macau), Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Gabon, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Montserrat, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, The Gambia, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia.