Friday, September 16, 2022

The Kapok tree - Cambodia

 

                                         Tomahawk in Cambodia with locally harvested Kapok pods



The Kapok tree has many uses world wide. I personally only use it for fire making and pillow stuffing. The kapok tree, silk cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Java cotton, Java kapok, ceiba, capoc [English]; ceiba, lupuna, kapok, pochote, árbol capoc [Spanish]; fromager, kapokier, bois coton [French]; mafumeira, samaúma, sumaúma da várzea [Portuguese]; kapokboom [Afrikaans/Dutch]; Kapokbaum, Wollbaum [German]; rimi [Hausa]; kapuk randu, kapuk [Indonesian/Javanese]; mapou [Haitian creole]; buma [Lingala]; pokok kekabu [Malay]; Pōchōtl [Nahuatl]; randu, kapuk [Sundanese]; bulak [Tagalog]; cây bông gạo, cây bông Java, cây bông lụa [Vietnamese]; قابوق خماسي الأسدية [Arabic]; कापोक का वृक्ष [Hindi]; പഞ്ഞിമരം, ശീമപ്പൂള [Malayalam]; カポック [Japanese]; Хло́пковое де́рево, Капок, Сумаума [Russian]; இலவு [Tamil]; తెల్లబూరుగ [Telugu]; นุ่น [Thai]; 吉贝 [Chinese]

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