Bombax Flower or cotton flower. Color pencils on paper. Original photograph was taken by Dadul Devekrishna from Assam. From "Wikipedia" I am giving some sescription of this flower--
Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus
Bombax, is commonly known as
cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as
red silk-cotton;
red cotton tree; or ambiguously as
silk-cotton or
kapok,
[2] both of which may also refer to
Ceiba pentandra.
This Asian tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage.[3] It produces a capsule which, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals. Although its stout trunk suggests that it is useful for timber, its wood is too soft to be very useful.
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