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

1) Wild kapok tree in English is the name of a plant defined with Bombax rhodognaphalon in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices.

2) Wild kapok tree is also identified with Rhodognaphalon schumannianum It has the synonym Bombax mossambicense A. Robyns (etc.).

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

· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas (1895)
· Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles (1963)
· Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l’État (1957)
· South African Journal of Botany (2003)

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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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