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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

White silk-cotton tree in English is the name of a plant defined with Ceiba pentandra in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Eriodendron anfractuosum var. indicum DC. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Systema Vegetabilium ed. 16 (1826)
· The Tiv Tribe. (1933)
· The Religion. (1971)
· Taxon (1979)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1791)
· Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (1988)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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