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Silk floss tree

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  • Silk floss tree

  • Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park

  • Algarve

  • Odemira

Identification and Access

  • No

  • Ceiba speciosa (A. St. Hil.) Ravenna

  • Largo Brito Pais

  • Public

  • 23 metros (2009)

  • Isolated tree

  • Planted in '80s

  • Is a tree native of the forests of Brazil and Bolivia. The trunk features ability to synthesize chlorophyll (make a photosynthesis) and features sharp thorns , more frequently in young trees.