Difference between white silk cotton and red silk cotton tree
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White silk cotton Tree
Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of which may also refer to Ceiba pentandra.
Red Cotton silk tree
Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var. guineensis) to tropical west Africa. A somewhat smaller variety is found throughout southern Asia and the East Indies. Kapok is a name used in English speaking countries for both the tree and the cotton-like fluff obtained from its seed pods. In Spanish speaking countries the tree is commonly known as "ceiba". The tree is cultivated for the seed fibre, particularly in south-east Asia, and is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, silk-cotton, samauma, or ceiba.
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Bombax ceiba of the Bombacaceae (Kapok-tree family) commonly known as Indian cottonwood, Indian kapok or Kapok tree is an important medicinal plant of tropical and subtropical India. It is actually a tall deciduous tree, with straight buttressed trunk and broad spreading branches. The plant is native to tropical South and Southeast Asia, namely India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, southern China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, northern Australia, and the Philippines. Few of the popular common names of the plant are Indian cottonwood, Indian kapok, Kapok tree, Red cotton tree, Red-flowered silk-cotton tree, Red silk-cotton, Red silk-cotton tree, Shaving brush, Silk cotton tree, Simal tree, Northern-cottonwood, Red silk cotton tree, Silk cotton tree and Simal. Almost every part of this plant is used as medicine, and its roots and flowers are used for curing the maximum number of ailments.