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Family: Bombacaceae	Genus: Bombax	Species: Bombax ceiba Linn.( सेमल )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Bombax malabaricum DC., Salmalia malabarica (DC.) Schott & Endl, Bombax aculeatum L.	Flower Color	Red - Pink
Common Name	Semal, Kapok Tree	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Silk Cotton Tree, Indian Bombax, Red Cotton Tree	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Semal	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Upto 1400 m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit ,8-10 X 3 Cm, downy tomentose, cylindrical, cuneate on both ends, blackish and glabrous at maturity
Habitat	Occasionally found in plains from the coast, on the deciduous belt of the hills	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	India, Tropical Southern Asia, Northern Australia And Tropical Africa	Bark Details	Bark 20-30 mm thick, gey mottled with white, longitudinal fissures shallow; blaze pink
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Elliptic
Description of Species	Deciduous trees Up to 45 m high bark 20-30 mm thick. Leaves digitately-compound, alternate, leaflets 5-7, whorled; petiolule 14-25 mm long, stout, glabrous.Lamina 10-20 x 2-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-obovate, lateral nerves 8-14 pairs. Flowers bisexual, dark crimson, 6-7 cm across, solitary or 2-5 together, calyx campanulate, irregularly lobed, lobes 3-4 x 3 cm. Petals 5, 8.5-18 x 3.5-5 cm, obovate to elliptic-obovate, recurved.Stamens 65-80, 3-7.5 cm long in 5 bundles. Ovary conical, tomentose, 5-celled; ovules many. Style exceeding the stamens. Stigma 5-fid, lobes spreading. Fruit a capsule, 8-10 x 3 cm, downy tomentose, cylindrical, cuneate on both ends, blackish and glabrous at maturity .S eeds numerous, pyriform, smooth, dark brown, embedded in white cotton	Leaf Details	Leaves digitately-compound, alternate, stipulate .Stipules small, lateral. Rachis 12-25 cm, stout, swollen at base, glabrous. Leaflets 5-7, whorled. Petiolule 14-25 mm long, stout, glabrous. Lamina 10-20 X 2-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-obovate

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