Kapok / white silk cotton

Ceiba pentandra

A tall upright deciduous exotic tree that resembles our semul or red silk cotton in many ways like 5-7 fanned leaflets (digitately compound), whorled branches, prickles on bark when young

Bark: Greyish brown, smooth (green when young and often, in streaks even in adult tree)

Leaf: digitately compound, leaflets 5-7 in number, on a short stalk