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Ceiba speciosa
its the flower of the tree on my backyard I belive its a ceiba. Complementing this spot http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/101...
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Bombacaceae as falling under the Family Malvaceae, and that the genus Chorisia is at least a synonym of Ceiba or has been replaced by it...so the names being discussed here are related.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?
Please check out the above suggestion link, for ventricosa "NO IMAGES FOUND". However for speciosa (as SteveHaines suggested below) there are "23 IMAGES FOUND"
Today i find this type flower in my book with Genus Chorisia and Family Bombacaceae
Yes Luis Its of Malvaceae family what I thinked due to anther type. But throat structure diverted my mind to different family...!!
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...
This is very much like my Bombax tree. What is the trunk of the tree like?
Thank you AshishNimkar, EmilieChich, S Frazier, and SteveHaines for the coments and the ID
I think you are correct Steve Haines. And Welcome to Project Noah! Looking forward to some spottings :-)
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.
Bauhinia was my first impression, but it has lobed leaves unlike this spotting.
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.
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!