Photos of ceiba or kapok tree [updated 200-06-02]

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Epiphyte-laden kapok tree (Guatemala) Epiphyte-laden branches of a giant Kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) at Tikal (Guatemala) Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree (pan01-0707) Kapok tree towering over the forest (Costa Rica) Looking up at a canopy platform in a Kapok tree Ceiba borer beetle (Peru) Stranger fig roots wrapped around Kapok tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of PeruV (Peru) Kapok tree towering over the forest (Costa Rica) Towering Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon Giant metallic ceiba borer beetle; Euchroma gigantea; on Kapok tree (Peru) Kapok (Ceiba) tree canopy observation platform Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Giant kapok tree- distance (Brazil) Kapok (Ceiba) cotton as it bursts from pods Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Kapok tree towering over the forest (Costa Rica) Kapok canopy platform Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Kapok (Ceiba) cotton as it bursts from pods (closeup) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Epiphytes growing densly on the branches of a ceiba tree (Guatemala) Uptrunk view giantkapok (Brazil) Epiphytes growing densly on the branches of a kapok tree (Guatemala) Spiral staircase leading up to the canopy platform situated in a giant Kapok (Ceiba) tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of PeruV (Peru) Kapok (Ceiba) releasing cotton Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Kapok (Ceiba) cotton tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Kapok (Ceiba) cotton as it bursts from pods (close) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Kapok tree towering over the forest (Costa Rica) Kapok (Ceiba) cotton width small black seeds Kapok seeds are dispersed in the wind. A breeze picks up the cotton and carries it away from the parent tree. Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Canopy tower leading to platform in a Ceiba (Kapok) tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Kapok (Ceiba) cotton Kapok cotton was once used to stuff life preservers and pillows Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Philodendron epiphyte in Kapok tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Looking down from Kapok platform Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Giant kapok - sideview (Brazil) Giant Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon Kapok (Ceiba) cotton Kapok cotton was once used to stuff life preservers and pillows Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Epiphyte-laden ceiba tree (Guatemala) ceiba or kapok tree: Page 1 | Page 2