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Latin name Family Distribution North America distribution zone Height Foliage Ecology Use Synonym English name French name Spanish name Other name Trade name
Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. Bombacaceae S North America (tropics) South America (tropics) S Eurasia (tropics) Africa (tropics) N M Oceania (tropics) SW SC SE L[G] D[E] hel hyg->xer calc sili cl (adored as a symbol of life, national tree of Guatemala, worshipped by the Mayas quiche as the "tree of life", the sacred tree of the Mayans is known as the "ladder to the heavens") cl(ob) dr (antispasmodic, diuretic, gum exude by the trunk used as intestinal ailments, infusion obtained from boiling the bark, soap and cosmetics) fd (fruits) fr fw ma (cotton like fiber surrounding the seeds is called kapok and used in industry as thermal and acoustic insulation, fiber for stuffing, filling pillows and mattresses, flotation and insulation applications, gum, oil from seed) pl pp (good for pulp and paper) sa ti (boats, buoy, carpentry, wood carving, cases, cheap packing boxes, coffins, construction, core stock, crates, crating, dugout canoes, furniture, laminated panel, matches sticks, moulding, ornamental boxes, packaging, packing cases, plywood, rafts, sports equipement, toys, turned work, veneers, wood shoes) Bombax anfractuosa (DC.) M.Gómez Bombax ceiba sensu Maycock Bombax guineense Thonn. Bombax mompoxense Kunth Bombax occidentale Spreng. Bombax orientale Spreng. Bombax pentandrum L. Ceiba anfractuosa (DC.) M.Gómez Ceiba caribaea (DC.) A.Chev. Ceiba casearia Medik. Ceiba guineensis (Thonn.) A.Chev. Ceiba guineensis var. ampla A.Chev. Ceiba guineensis f. grisea A.Chev. Ceiba occidentalis Burke Ceiba occidentalis (Spreng.) Burkill Ceiba pentandra var. caribaea (DC.) Bakh. Ceiba pentandra var. clausa Ulbr. Ceiba pentandra var. dehiscens Ulbr. Ceiba pentandra var. indica (DC.) Bakh. Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. var. pentandra Ceiba pentandra f. albolana Ulbr. Ceiba pentandra f. grisea Ulbr. Ceiba thonnerii A.Chev. Eriodendron anfractuosum DC. Eriodendron anfractuosum var. africanum DC. Eriodendron anfractuosum var. caribaeum DC. Eriodendron anfractuosum var. indicum DC. Eriodendron caribaeum (DC.) G.Don ex Loud. Eriodendron guineense (Thonn.) G.Don ex Loud. Eriodendron occidentale (Spreng.) G.Don Eriodendron orientale (Spreng.) Kostel. Eriodendron pentandrum (L.) Kuntze Gossampinus alba Ham. Gossampinus rumphii Schott & Endl. Xylon pentandrum (L.) Kuntze kapok ceiba; balsa, balsa-wood (USA); bombast mahoe (Jamaica); ceiba (Belize, UK, USA, Virgin Gorda); corkwood (Jamaica, UK); cotton tree (Belize, Jamaica, Panama, West Indies); cottontree (Panama, West Indies); downtree (Jamaica); egungun; false cork-tree (Virgin Islands); fromager (UK); Honduras cottonwood; kapok (Puerto Rico); kapok tree (Micronesia); lama, lana (Panama); pintree; silk cotton (Guyana, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago); silk-cotton tree (Bahamas, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Virgin Gorda); polak (Belize); silk-cotton-tree; silkcotton (Lesser Antilles); silkcotton tree (Panama) ceiba kapokier; arbre à boure, arbre à bourre, arbre à kapok; bois coton (Guyana); bois flot (Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St.Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago); bois liège, bois lièvre, bois pripri (Guadeloupe); ceiba à cinq étamines; coton fleurs (Haiti); cotonnier soyeux; fromager (Cameroon, France, French West Indies, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Mali, Rwanda); fromager mapou (Guadeloupe); fromagier (French West Indies); kapokier (Guyana, Rwanda); kapotier (Zaire); mahaudème (Haiti); mahot coton (Guyana); mapon coton (Haiti); mapou (Guadeloupe, Haiti); mapou coton (Haiti); mapou rouge, patte lapin (Guadeloupe) algodon (El Salvador); árbol de algodon (Costa Rica); árbol sagrado de la vida; balsa, balso (Spain); bonga (Colombia); bongo (Panama); botija (Cuba); cajeto (Colombia); catejo (Guatemala); ceiba blanca, ceiba bonga, ceiba bruja, ceiba de lana (Colombia); ceiba macho (Venezuela); ceiba rosado (Colombia); ceiba uchuputu (Ecuador); ceiba yuca, ceiba yucca (Venezuela); ceibadelana (Colombia); ceibo (Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua); ceibo macho (Venezuela); ceibon (Central America, Nicaragua); ceibón (Cuba); corcho (Guatemala, Mexico); corvcho (Colombia); gatillo (Nicaragua); guambush (Ecuador); guano (Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras); huampo (Peru); huimba (Peru, Venezuela); inup (Central America); jujul (Guatemala); jujull (Colombia); kapok (Honduras); kumaca (Caribbean); lama (Colombia, Dominican Republic); lamero (Cuba, Dominican Republic); lamilla (Colombia); lana (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala); lanero (Cuba, Dominican Republic); lanilla (Guatemala); lano blanco, lano brujo (Colombia); mapajo (Bolivia); pachote (Mexico); palo de balsa (Spain); palo de lama, palo de lana (Dominican Republic); pana (Colombia); pishtin (Mexico); piton (Central America); pochota (Mexico); pochote (Mexico, Nicaragua); pochotta; seiba (Cuba); sumauna; tambor (Honduras); toborachi (Bolivia); toborochi ceiba (Bolivia, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela); topa (Peru); tucumo (Colombia) a mã, a mâna (konyagi); a ndin, ã din (basari); afalafase (ljaw); akha (Nigeria); akpu (igbo); algodon de Manila (chamorro, Micronesia); anié (Ivory Coast); araba (yoruba); araba okha (Nigeria); árvore-da-là, árvore-da-seda (Brazil); atagon di Manila (chamorro, Micronesia); amo pok (mandyak); balsa (Brazil); bana-bãndã (malinke); banam (Senegal); banan (bambara and malinke, Mali); banda (Sierra Leone); bântã (mandinka); bantachi (fuuta jalon); bãntãg (malinke); bãntigehi, bãntinévi (fulfulde); bâtã (fuuta jalon); be ntèn (mankanya); bèntanõ (socé); bentegnié (Ivory Coast); bentégnié (Senegal); bérin (badyara); bètntégné (wolof); bokum (bokyi); bokwakoso (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); bonga (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico); bosongu (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); bouma (do?; Cameroon, Gabon); bousana (Guinea); bu sana (jola and ejamat); bu tèn (bayot); buday, budèy (non); bulik (marshallese, Marshall Islands Republic); ceiba (italian); cuypishtin (popoluca, Mexico); djom (amo); doma (pyba ?); doum (ew?; Cameroon, Gabon); douma (bo); énia (Ivory Coast); fu gak (ejamat); fulugonga (babwana); fuma (Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Congo); fwomage (creole, Haiti); gãnki (fulfulde); ghé (Liberia); gi ndil (budik); gila (Central African Republic); gô (Ivory Coast); hoeipochotli; hoeiqochotli (Costa Rica); hounti (Benin); huo-yui (siona, Colombia); inup (maya, Belize; Guatemala); jujul (Guatemala); kalngebard, kalngebárd (palauan, Micronesia); kankantrie (Suriname); Kapok-baum, Kapokbaum (german); katangabudia (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); kerrekar ngebard (palauan, Micronesia); koemaka (Suriname); kondé (socé); kongi mutengela (central dusun); kotin (marshallese, Marshall Islands Republic); kuchi (nupe, Nigeria); kule (pybi); kulo (Cameroon, Gabon); kulu (pybi); kumaka (Guyana); lèn (non); li-mis-gash-pupi (chontal, Mexico); liuma li libande (lombo); liyoa potamba (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); maó (Colombia); mapou, mapou koton (creole, Haiti); mbuday (serer); mfuma (Congo); mofumo (babwana); mosungu (lingala, Dem. Rep. of the Congo); mox (Guatemala); mulende (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); musufi (swahili); ngoué (Ivory Coast); ngwé (Sierra Leone); nkouma (Cameroon, Gabon); nuo (Guatemala); odouma, ogouma (Cameroon, Gabon); ogungun (yoruba, Nigeria); okha (edo; Nigeria); okhakhen (urhobo); paina-lisa (Brazil); painera (portuguese, Brazil); panaya (India); paneira (Brazil); panji-ilavu, panya (India); pe ntèn (mankanya); pelõ (portuguese creole); pentya (mandyak); piim (maya); pirii (bobo fing, Burkina Faso and Mali); pishtin (Mexico); pocheta; pochota (Brazil, Mexico); pochotl (nahuatl, Mexico); polõ (portuguese creole); psahé (balanta); púchute (totonaco, Mexico); pulun imbul (Sri Lanka); rimi (hausa, Ghana); rum (arabic and shuwa arabic); rumbum (balanta); shienge (senoufo, Mali); shinge (senoufo, Mali); si dèn (bainouk); sumauma (Brazil); sumaúma (portuguese, Brazil); sumaúma de várzea, sumaúma-da-várzea, sumaúma-verdadeira, sumaúmal, sumaumeira (Brazil); sumauna; tom (kanuri, Nigeria); tunuum (mixtec, Mexico); tyaa (bwamu, Burkina Faso and Mali); ukem (efik); ukim (ibibio); unup (huasteco, Mexico); vambe (tiv); vula (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); Wollbaum (german); yaga-xeni (zapoteco, Mexico); yaxché (maya, Belize, Guatemala and Mexico); yaxche balsa, balsa-wood, ceiba; kapok (India); kapok-tree, silk-cotton-tree

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Latin name Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.
Family Bombacaceae
Distribution S North America (tropics) South America (tropics) S Eurasia (tropics) Africa (tropics) N M Oceania (tropics)
North America distribution zone SW SC SE
Height L[G]
Foliage D[E]
Ecology hel hyg->xer calc sili
Use cl (adored as a symbol of life, national tree of Guatemala, worshipped by the Mayas quiche as the "tree of life", the sacred tree of the Mayans is known as the "ladder to the heavens") cl(ob) dr (antispasmodic, diuretic, gum exude by the trunk used as intestinal ailments, infusion obtained from boiling the bark, soap and cosmetics) fd (fruits) fr fw ma (cotton like fiber surrounding the seeds is called kapok and used in industry as thermal and acoustic insulation, fiber for stuffing, filling pillows and mattresses, flotation and insulation applications, gum, oil from seed) pl pp (good for pulp and paper) sa ti (boats, buoy, carpentry, wood carving, cases, cheap packing boxes, coffins, construction, core stock, crates, crating, dugout canoes, furniture, laminated panel, matches sticks, moulding, ornamental boxes, packaging, packing cases, plywood, rafts, sports equipement, toys, turned work, veneers, wood shoes)
Synonym Bombax anfractuosa (DC.) M.Gómez Bombax ceiba sensu Maycock Bombax guineense Thonn. Bombax mompoxense Kunth Bombax occidentale Spreng. Bombax orientale Spreng. Bombax pentandrum L. Ceiba anfractuosa (DC.) M.Gómez Ceiba caribaea (DC.) A.Chev. Ceiba casearia Medik. Ceiba guineensis (Thonn.) A.Chev. Ceiba guineensis var. ampla A.Chev. Ceiba guineensis f. grisea A.Chev. Ceiba occidentalis Burke Ceiba occidentalis (Spreng.) Burkill Ceiba pentandra var. caribaea (DC.) Bakh. Ceiba pentandra var. clausa Ulbr. Ceiba pentandra var. dehiscens Ulbr. Ceiba pentandra var. indica (DC.) Bakh. Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. var. pentandra Ceiba pentandra f. albolana Ulbr. Ceiba pentandra f. grisea Ulbr. Ceiba thonnerii A.Chev. Eriodendron anfractuosum DC. Eriodendron anfractuosum var. africanum DC. Eriodendron anfractuosum var. caribaeum DC. Eriodendron anfractuosum var. indicum DC. Eriodendron caribaeum (DC.) G.Don ex Loud. Eriodendron guineense (Thonn.) G.Don ex Loud. Eriodendron occidentale (Spreng.) G.Don Eriodendron orientale (Spreng.) Kostel. Eriodendron pentandrum (L.) Kuntze Gossampinus alba Ham. Gossampinus rumphii Schott & Endl. Xylon pentandrum (L.) Kuntze
English name kapok ceiba; balsa, balsa-wood (USA); bombast mahoe (Jamaica); ceiba (Belize, UK, USA, Virgin Gorda); corkwood (Jamaica, UK); cotton tree (Belize, Jamaica, Panama, West Indies); cottontree (Panama, West Indies); downtree (Jamaica); egungun; false cork-tree (Virgin Islands); fromager (UK); Honduras cottonwood; kapok (Puerto Rico); kapok tree (Micronesia); lama, lana (Panama); pintree; silk cotton (Guyana, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago); silk-cotton tree (Bahamas, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Virgin Gorda); polak (Belize); silk-cotton-tree; silkcotton (Lesser Antilles); silkcotton tree (Panama)
French name ceiba kapokier; arbre à boure, arbre à bourre, arbre à kapok; bois coton (Guyana); bois flot (Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St.Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago); bois liège, bois lièvre, bois pripri (Guadeloupe); ceiba à cinq étamines; coton fleurs (Haiti); cotonnier soyeux; fromager (Cameroon, France, French West Indies, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Mali, Rwanda); fromager mapou (Guadeloupe); fromagier (French West Indies); kapokier (Guyana, Rwanda); kapotier (Zaire); mahaudème (Haiti); mahot coton (Guyana); mapon coton (Haiti); mapou (Guadeloupe, Haiti); mapou coton (Haiti); mapou rouge, patte lapin (Guadeloupe)
Spanish name algodon (El Salvador); árbol de algodon (Costa Rica); árbol sagrado de la vida; balsa, balso (Spain); bonga (Colombia); bongo (Panama); botija (Cuba); cajeto (Colombia); catejo (Guatemala); ceiba blanca, ceiba bonga, ceiba bruja, ceiba de lana (Colombia); ceiba macho (Venezuela); ceiba rosado (Colombia); ceiba uchuputu (Ecuador); ceiba yuca, ceiba yucca (Venezuela); ceibadelana (Colombia); ceibo (Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua); ceibo macho (Venezuela); ceibon (Central America, Nicaragua); ceibón (Cuba); corcho (Guatemala, Mexico); corvcho (Colombia); gatillo (Nicaragua); guambush (Ecuador); guano (Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras); huampo (Peru); huimba (Peru, Venezuela); inup (Central America); jujul (Guatemala); jujull (Colombia); kapok (Honduras); kumaca (Caribbean); lama (Colombia, Dominican Republic); lamero (Cuba, Dominican Republic); lamilla (Colombia); lana (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala); lanero (Cuba, Dominican Republic); lanilla (Guatemala); lano blanco, lano brujo (Colombia); mapajo (Bolivia); pachote (Mexico); palo de balsa (Spain); palo de lama, palo de lana (Dominican Republic); pana (Colombia); pishtin (Mexico); piton (Central America); pochota (Mexico); pochote (Mexico, Nicaragua); pochotta; seiba (Cuba); sumauna; tambor (Honduras); toborachi (Bolivia); toborochi ceiba (Bolivia, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela); topa (Peru); tucumo (Colombia)
Other name a mã, a mâna (konyagi); a ndin, ã din (basari); afalafase (ljaw); akha (Nigeria); akpu (igbo); algodon de Manila (chamorro, Micronesia); anié (Ivory Coast); araba (yoruba); araba okha (Nigeria); árvore-da-là, árvore-da-seda (Brazil); atagon di Manila (chamorro, Micronesia); amo pok (mandyak); balsa (Brazil); bana-bãndã (malinke); banam (Senegal); banan (bambara and malinke, Mali); banda (Sierra Leone); bântã (mandinka); bantachi (fuuta jalon); bãntãg (malinke); bãntigehi, bãntinévi (fulfulde); bâtã (fuuta jalon); be ntèn (mankanya); bèntanõ (socé); bentegnié (Ivory Coast); bentégnié (Senegal); bérin (badyara); bètntégné (wolof); bokum (bokyi); bokwakoso (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); bonga (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico); bosongu (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); bouma (do?; Cameroon, Gabon); bousana (Guinea); bu sana (jola and ejamat); bu tèn (bayot); buday, budèy (non); bulik (marshallese, Marshall Islands Republic); ceiba (italian); cuypishtin (popoluca, Mexico); djom (amo); doma (pyba ?); doum (ew?; Cameroon, Gabon); douma (bo); énia (Ivory Coast); fu gak (ejamat); fulugonga (babwana); fuma (Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Congo); fwomage (creole, Haiti); gãnki (fulfulde); ghé (Liberia); gi ndil (budik); gila (Central African Republic); gô (Ivory Coast); hoeipochotli; hoeiqochotli (Costa Rica); hounti (Benin); huo-yui (siona, Colombia); inup (maya, Belize; Guatemala); jujul (Guatemala); kalngebard, kalngebárd (palauan, Micronesia); kankantrie (Suriname); Kapok-baum, Kapokbaum (german); katangabudia (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); kerrekar ngebard (palauan, Micronesia); koemaka (Suriname); kondé (socé); kongi mutengela (central dusun); kotin (marshallese, Marshall Islands Republic); kuchi (nupe, Nigeria); kule (pybi); kulo (Cameroon, Gabon); kulu (pybi); kumaka (Guyana); lèn (non); li-mis-gash-pupi (chontal, Mexico); liuma li libande (lombo); liyoa potamba (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); maó (Colombia); mapou, mapou koton (creole, Haiti); mbuday (serer); mfuma (Congo); mofumo (babwana); mosungu (lingala, Dem. Rep. of the Congo); mox (Guatemala); mulende (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); musufi (swahili); ngoué (Ivory Coast); ngwé (Sierra Leone); nkouma (Cameroon, Gabon); nuo (Guatemala); odouma, ogouma (Cameroon, Gabon); ogungun (yoruba, Nigeria); okha (edo; Nigeria); okhakhen (urhobo); paina-lisa (Brazil); painera (portuguese, Brazil); panaya (India); paneira (Brazil); panji-ilavu, panya (India); pe ntèn (mankanya); pelõ (portuguese creole); pentya (mandyak); piim (maya); pirii (bobo fing, Burkina Faso and Mali); pishtin (Mexico); pocheta; pochota (Brazil, Mexico); pochotl (nahuatl, Mexico); polõ (portuguese creole); psahé (balanta); púchute (totonaco, Mexico); pulun imbul (Sri Lanka); rimi (hausa, Ghana); rum (arabic and shuwa arabic); rumbum (balanta); shienge (senoufo, Mali); shinge (senoufo, Mali); si dèn (bainouk); sumauma (Brazil); sumaúma (portuguese, Brazil); sumaúma de várzea, sumaúma-da-várzea, sumaúma-verdadeira, sumaúmal, sumaumeira (Brazil); sumauna; tom (kanuri, Nigeria); tunuum (mixtec, Mexico); tyaa (bwamu, Burkina Faso and Mali); ukem (efik); ukim (ibibio); unup (huasteco, Mexico); vambe (tiv); vula (Dem. Rep. of the Congo); Wollbaum (german); yaga-xeni (zapoteco, Mexico); yaxché (maya, Belize, Guatemala and Mexico); yaxche
Trade name balsa, balsa-wood, ceiba; kapok (India); kapok-tree, silk-cotton-tree
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