Kapok tree can refer to several plants
Malvales
The Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, the order includes about 6000 species within 9 families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots.
The plants are mostly shrubs and ...
with one exception with seeds that grow long hairs:
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Bombax ceiba'', an Asian tree with red flowers
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Calotropis procera
''Calotropis procera'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae that is native to North Africa, Pakistan, tropical Africa, Western Asia, South Asia, and Indochina. The green fruits contain a toxic milky sap that is extremely b ...
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Asterid
In the APG IV system (2016) for the classification of flowering plants, the name asterids denotes a clade (a monophyletic group). Asterids is the largest group of flowering plants, with more than 80,000 species, about a third of the total flo ...
), a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but a weed in other places
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Ceiba pentandra
''Ceiba pentandra'' is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety ''C. pentandr ...
'', a tree of the tropical Americas with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre
*Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
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Cochlospermum gillivraei''
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Cochlospermum fraseri''
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