Silk Cotton trees can be found in many Caribbean countries and here in Guyana too. However, it was never commercially important to the Caribbean as it was most feared. The Silk Cotton tree is a ...

Silk cotton is a medicinal tree, which is also beneficial in coughs and gallstones. By grinding its raw fruit, making powder or decoction, you get to benefit in stones and other urinary problems.

The tree’s flaming-red flowers herald summer. But its fallen buds, cooked as a fleeting seasonal dish, are a lesson in patience and resisting market economics.

Lewin’s series, titled “Roots of the Cotton Tree” for the lore around Jamaica’s sacred silk cotton trees, embodies the sensation of simultaneously stepping back in time and into the future.

I’ve seen a Guyana television report in which some Mahaicony residents are asking for Halfway Tree, the prominent silk cotton tree in the middle of the East Coast Highway in Perseverance Village ...

The silk cotton is an outstanding tree in our tropical setting as it towers in height far above the general level of the forest canopy. It may reach heights of over 150 feet (46 metres) and it is ...

The red silk-cotton tree alone is worth the trip to Bradenton’s Palma Sola Botanical Park. The tree is aflame with hundreds of huge red flowers.

UMUAJA- BELIEVED to be the deepest inland waterway in Africa, the River Ethiope, unlike sources of other rivers, originated from the foot of a giant silk-cotton tree at Umuaja in Ukwuani Local ...

At every nook and corner of the city, there lies a majestic tall dry deciduous tree popularly called the Semal (also called the silk cotton tree, the cotton tree, Bombax, Indian Kapok, Shembal).