Photos of ceiba or kapok tree

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Looking up at a canopy platform in a Kapok tree	Ceiba borer beetle	Giant metallic ceiba borer beetle, Euchroma gigantea, on Kapok tree
Towering Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon	Stranger fig roots wrapped around Kapok tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of PeruV	Kapok (Ceiba) tree canopy observation platform Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru
Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree (pan01-0707)	Kapok (Ceiba) cotton tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	Kapok (Ceiba) cotton as it bursts from pods Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru
Kapok (Ceiba) cotton as it bursts from pods (closeup) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	Kapok (Ceiba) cotton as it bursts from pods (close) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	Looking down from Kapok platform Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru
Philodendron epiphyte in Kapok tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	Giant kapok tree- distance	Giant Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon
Spiral staircase leading up to the canopy platform situated in a giant Kapok (Ceiba) tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of PeruV	Kapok (Ceiba) cotton Kapok cotton was once used to stuff life preservers and pillows Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	Canopy tower leading to platform in a Ceiba (Kapok) tree Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru
Giant kapok tree	Uptrunk view giantkapok	Giant kapok - sideview
Kapok (Ceiba) releasing cotton Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	Kapok (Ceiba) cotton Kapok cotton was once used to stuff life preservers and pillows Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru	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

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