Silk-cotton tree is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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Bombax ceiba
''Bombax ceiba'', like other trees of the genus ''Bombax'', is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of ...
'', native to the Asian tropics
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Ceiba pentandra
''Ceiba pentandra'' is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety ''C. pentandr ...
'', native to the American tropics and west Africa
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Cochlospermum religiosum
''Cochlospermum religiosum'' is a flowering plant from the tropical region of Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. It is a small tree growing to a height of usually found in dry deciduous forests.
The name ''religiosum'' derives from the ...
'', native to the Asian tropics
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