Scientific Name: Ceiba pentandra Gaertn.

Caption: Flowers of Kapok tree - Ceiba pentandra

Photographer: Tatiana Gerus

Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/4804054793/

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (-27.476665, 152.973397)

Notes: I were in luck to be able to see these flower on the large majestic tree ( the photo below shows the tree size) It is photographed in Mt. Coot-tha Botanic Garden (Brisbane, Australia),  the few of them planted there and they are wrongly labelled as Bombax costatum, native to Sudan. However it is Ceiba pe