Bombax ceiba seeds

Large deciduous tree
Plant: up to 25 meters high,
Stem: The bark is grayish white, and the trunks of young trees usually have thick cone-shaped spines; the branches are flat.
Leaves: Palmate compound leaves, 5-7 leaflets, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 10-16 cm long, 3.5-5.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broad or attenuate, entire margin, both sides Hairless, with 15-17 pairs of pinnate lateral veins, ascending, with a thin second-level lateral vein in between, the veins are very fine, and the two sides are slightly convex; the petiole is 10-20 cm long; the petiole is 1.5- 4 cm; stipules small.
Flowers: Flowers are solitary in the leaf axils of branches, usually red, sometimes orange-red, about 10 cm in diameter; calyx cup-shaped, 2-3 cm long, hairless outside, densely covered with light yellow short silk hairs inside, calyx teeth 3-5, half Round, 1.5 cm high, 2.3 cm wide, petals fleshy, obovate-oblong, 8-10 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, both sides covered with stellate pubescence, but the inner side is sparse; the stamen tube is short, The filaments are thicker at the base and taper upwards. The upper part of the filaments in the inner whorl is 2-forked. The 10 stamens in the middle are short and unforked. The outer whorl has many stamens and is integrated into 5 bundles. Each bundle has more than 10 filaments and is longer; the style Longer than stamens.
In dry and hot areas, the flowers bloom before the leaves; but in monsoon forest or rainforest climate conditions, the flowers and leaves coexist at the same time.
Fruit: Capsule oblong, blunt, 10-15 cm long, 4.5-5 cm thick, densely covered with gray-white villous and stellate pubescence; seeds are numerous, obovate, smooth.
Seeds: Many seeds, obovate, smooth;