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Ceiba pentandra

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Kapok is native to tropical America and Africa – Mexico, Central America, northern South America and the Caribbean, and tropical west Africa. Now introduced elsewhere in the tropics, in Asia and the South Pacific.

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Lim, T.K. (2012). Ceiba pentandra. In: Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8661-7_72

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