Plant names. Kapok of a kind. Also known as Panzhihua, hero tree. Tree height and large, bright red flowers, the fruit not of textile fibers, the kapok textile fiber can be different classes. Ming Li's "Compendium of Materia Medica wood three Kapok": "Kapok are two kinds of vegetation, cross wide kapok tree as big as a hold, its branches like Tung, its leaves the size of walnut leaves as big as a fist ... ... strong, solid in white cotton, cotton in sub. people today that the variegated flowers, and correct for the Panzhihua. "Ming Xu Guangqi" NongzhengQuanshu "Volume 5:" "History of Southern Dynasties," the so-called Lin Yi Jibei, "Wu Lu" so-called Yongchang kapok, all that cotton grass and trees, for cloth, which means Horse Chestnut tree. However, no class and spotted flowers. " |