Bombax rhodognaphalon 5 Pieces Seeds

Bombax rhodognaphalon 5 Pieces Seeds

Package : 5 seeds

• Brilliant scarlet-red flowers on bare branches — before the leaves; spectacular seasonal display
• Large deciduous tree; trunk with conical prickles; broad palmate leaves
• West and Central Africa — related to Bombax costatum (Senegal to Sudan)
• Seed pods yield silky kapok fibre; ecologically important savanna tree
• Full sun; fast-growing; drought-tolerant; tropical and seasonally dry conditions

Bombax rodognaphalon is one of the most spectacular flowering trees of the African tropics — a large, prickly-trunked savanna giant whose brilliant scarlet flowers on bare winter branches create one of the most dramatic seasonal displays in the African landscape, and whose kapok-fibre pods have been used across West Africa for generations.