These kapok or silk-cotton trees belong to the Bombax family, Bombacaceae, which includes many fascinating, handsome and much admired trees. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Mapou tree is known in English as either a silk-cotton tree or a Ceiba tree. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unexpectedly Joao fired a burst at the nearest silk-cotton tree and yelled with glee as a section of the emaciated trunk disappeared in a cloud of splinters. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr. Olch launched his eponymous line of handmade bow and straight ties in linen, seersucker, wool and silk-cotton blends two years ago and saw his goods quickly picked up by Bergdorf Goodman and buzzed about in magazines, including GQ and Vanity Fair. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Equatorial Guineathree equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side and the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll with the motto UNIDAD, PAZ, JUSTICIA (Unity, Peace, Justice) ❋ Unknown (2008)
But in the distance here and there we can see lines of forest, with the leafless round crown of a 150-foot silk-cotton tree poking up from the canopy like an enormous dandelion gone to seed. ❋ Shoumatoff, Alex (2007)
This coloured earth identifies a silk-cotton tree as being the residence of a ❋ Unknown (2003)
All silk-cotton trees are suspected because they are held to be the roosts for Duppies. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She is of immense height, and white; perhaps this idea is derived from the white stem of the silk-cotton trees wherein she invariably abides. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He lives in the forest, in or under those great silk-cotton trees around the roots of which the earth is red. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side and the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll with the motto UNIDAD, PAZ, ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)
Equatorial Guinea three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side and the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll with the motto UNIDAD, PAZ, ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)
In order the better to amuse me, and make me remain in a recumbent position, dad rigged up an Indian grass hammock for me beneath the shade of one of the large silk-cotton trees by the side of the house; and here ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
The tamarind, the silk-cotton tree [47], and the palm, shaded us, and a thousand elegant shrubs adorned the garden walls. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)
Equatorial Guinea: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side and the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms has six yellow six-pointed stars (representing the mainland and five offshore islands) above a gray shield bearing a silk-cotton tree and below which is a scroll with the motto UNIDAD, PAZ, ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)
