Chorisia insignis بدھا

نباتاتی نام :کو ریزیا انسگنس Botanical Name: Chorisia insignis

نباتاتی نام :کو ریزیا سپیشیوزا speciosa Ceiba

خاندان ©:بمبیسی Family:Bombaceae

انگریزی نام:فلاس سلک ٹری Floss silk tree palo borracho"drunken stick"

دیسی نا م: بدھا Budha tree

ابتدائی مسکن(ارتقائ):جنوبی برازیل اور ارجنٹائن ، جنوبی امریکہ

قسم:سال بہ سال پتے جھاڑنے والا

شکل:تنا ٹرنک بوتل نما bottleshaped ہے ۔ عام طور پر نچلے حصہ میں ابھر ہوا۔                  قد:12-15 میٹر

پھولوں کا رنگ:ذردی مائل سفید                            پھول آنے کا وقت: اکتوبر ۔نومبر

کاشت:بیج

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نمایاں خصوصیات:موٹے مخروطی کانٹوں سے بھرا ہو جو خشکی کے دوران پانی ذخیرہ کرتے ہیں ۔     

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 It is resistant to drought and moderate cold. It grows fast in spurts when water is abundant, and sometimes reaches more than 25 metres (82 ft) in height. Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third, measuring up to 2 metres (7 ft) in girth. It is studded with thick conical prickles which serve to store water for dry times. In younger trees, the trunk is green due to its high chlorophyll content, which makes it capable of performing photosynthesis when leaves are absent; with age it turns to gray.[1]

Leaves, stems, and flowers[edit]

The branches tend to be horizontal and are also covered with prickles. The leaves are composed of five to seven long leaflets. The flowers are creamy-whitish in the center and pink towards the tips of their five petals. They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially similar to hibiscus flowers. Their nectar is known to attract insects such as monarch butterflies, which perform pollination. C. speciosa flowers are in bloom between February and May (in its native Southern Hemisphere), but can also bloom at other times of the year. The flowers of the related C. chodatii are similar in form and size, but their color goes from creamy white centers to yellow tips.[1]

Fruits[edit]

The fruits are lignous ovoid pods, 20 centimetres (8 in) long, which contain bean-sized black seeds surrounded by a mass of fibrous, fluffy matter reminiscent of cotton or silk.[1]

Uses[edit]

The cotton inside the fruit pods, although not of as good quality as that of the kapok tree, has been used as stuffing f(density = 0.27 g/cm³), soft and flexible, and is employed in packaging, to make canoes, as wood pulp to make paper, and in ropes. From the seeds it is possible to obtain vegetable oil (both edible and industrially useful).

The floss silk tree is cultivated mostly for ornamental purposes. Outside of private gardens around the world, it is often planted along urban streets in subtropical areas such as in South Africa, Australia, northern New Zealand and southern USA. Ceiba speciosa is added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca.