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Ceiba speciosa

Ceiba speciosa

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its the flower of the tree on my backyard I belive its a ceiba. Complementing this spot http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/101...

21 Comments

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

You are very welcome!

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Thank you S Frazier and AshishNimkar for your help in ID this tree.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Scott is right... its speciosa specie.

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

It seems that many authorities now consider the members of the Family Bombacaceae as falling under the Family Malvaceae, and that the genus Chorisia is at least a synonym of Ceiba or has been replaced by it...so the names being discussed here are related. But the question here I think is whether this species is ventricosa or speciosa. There are many images of the flower of speciosa on the web to look at; what about ventricosa?

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Yes, S Frazier you are right, thank you

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

Please check out the above suggestion link, for ventricosa "NO IMAGES FOUND". However for speciosa (as SteveHaines suggested below) there are "23 IMAGES FOUND"

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Thank you AshishNimkar for the ID and the link

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Today i find this type flower in my book with Genus Chorisia and Family Bombacaceae

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Thanks AshishNimkar

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Yes Luis Its of Malvaceae family what I thinked due to anther type. But throat structure diverted my mind to different family...!!

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Thank you harsuame

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 12 years ago

bella Flor!!!

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

I have the same ceiba tree but in winter with pictures of the trunk.
Maybe it can help to ID for shure
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/101...

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

This is very much like my Bombax tree. What is the trunk of the tree like?

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Thank you AshishNimkar, EmilieChich, S Frazier, and SteveHaines for the coments and the ID

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

I think you are correct Steve Haines. And Welcome to Project Noah! Looking forward to some spottings :-)

SteveHaines
SteveHaines 12 years ago

Hi folks I'm new to this as just joined but I believe this is Ceiba speciosa from tropical South America (Brazil & Argentina) formerly Chorisia speciosa. It's in the Malvaceae family.

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 12 years ago

Bauhinia was my first impression, but it has lobed leaves unlike this spotting.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Emilie I also think of Bauhinia first but anthers and throat can not be of that genus. And this one look like shrub plant out of fabaceae family if referred leafs.

EmilieChich
EmilieChich 12 years ago

I think it is a Caesalpiniaceae, of the Bauhinia genus, but I did not find the species. Beautiful series, I love photo n° 3 in particular. Bravo!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

May be one of Alstroemeriaceae family plant

LuisStevens
Spotted by
LuisStevens

San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Spotted on Aug 8, 2006
Submitted on Apr 3, 2012

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