*Bombax ceiba* is also called *Salmalia malabarica *(Simal) - it is a native tree, it is the tree of Jesta star. one cannot get commercial quantity of cotton used for bed making.(Your 3,4 will be Bombax ceiba)
*Ceiba pentandra* is the commercial silk cotton tree introduced from Africa, even leaves of Sterculia foetida will be like this. *Thanks ®ards* *Dr. Santhan P* *Plant Taxonomist* *Industrial R&D expert* *Author of the book ; Trees of our life (*Botany, Chemistry, medicine - 2018) *9**444813474/9620389349* On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 08:39, Anand Kalinadhabhatla < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I obtained the saplings in the attached pictures from Telangana Forest > Department in warangal district. I asked them for Bombax ceiba to plant in > my garden and I got these. One of the forest officials tells me that these > are Ceiba pentandra and not Bombax ceiba. Can you rightly identify these? > > Picture names ending with _1 and _2 are of the same plant obtained at > Nursery 1 > Picture names ending with _3 and _4 are of the same plant obtained at > Nursery 2 > > This is my first ever post on the group. > > Regards > Anand > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 are directly displayed). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
