In Guyana, the Silk Cotton tree is also known as the ‘Jumbie’ Tree. According to folklore, it is the most feared and notorious place to find a spirit and other supernatural being.

Silk cotton is a medicinal tree, which is also beneficial in coughs and gallstones. By grinding its raw fruit, making powder or decoction, you get to benefit in stones and other urinary problems.

My first culinary encounter with sembal dodde – which is what the buds of Bombax ceiba, or silk cotton tree, are called in Khadi Boli spoken in Saharanpur – was one of wonder.

In Cambodia, we saw two species of deciduous trees that were even larger and more aggressive than the strangler fig— the Thitpok - Tetrameles nudiflora and the silk cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra.

The silk cotton is an outstanding tree in our tropical setting as it towers in height far above the general level of the forest canopy. It may reach heights of over 150 feet (46 metres) and it is ...

This Silk Cotton Tree is approximately 150 years old and provided shade to the residents of the Home. What should have been a simple tree trimming exercise turned out to be a catastrophe.

The silk cotton tree’s blooms light up urban neighbourhoods, attracting birds and animals alike For a better experience, Read this story in our App SENSEX 83,513.47 ...

The red silk-cotton tree alone is worth the trip to Bradenton’s Palma Sola Botanical Park. The tree is aflame with hundreds of huge red flowers.

SURAT: There's nothing more contradictory than this: the city is witnessing heatwave and needs trees for protection from the sun, but the garden depar.

Ta Prohm, the overgrown jungle temple of Tomb Raider fame, will lose four of its distinctive trees after government officials overseeing the Angkor park decided to remove them this week for safety ...

Cambodia’s silk industry dates back to the 13th century Khmer Empire, when it developed along the Mekong and Bassac rivers south of Phnom Penh. The ancient art was disrupted during the 1970s ...

UMUAJA- BELIEVED to be the deepest inland waterway in Africa, the River Ethiope, unlike sources of other rivers, originated from the foot of a giant silk-cotton tree at Umuaja in Ukwuani Local ...