Red Silk Cotton Tree Exotic Tree - Bombax Ceiba - 5 Seeds withania The flowers

The flowers

or pulped and baked into cakes

generally succulent

There are not many aloes from the Cape that flower during summer

Saffron's bitter taste and iodoform- or hay-like fragrance result from the chemicals picrocrocin and safranal

Red Silk Cotton Tree Exotic Tree - Bombax Ceiba - 5 Seeds withania The flowersBombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree or tree cotton. This tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage. It produces a capsule which, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals. Although its stout trunk suggests that it is useful for timber, its