Silk Cotton Tree – Caribbean Archaeology Program https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/caribarch/education/ceiba/
The Silk Cotton or Ceiba Tree [Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.] is one of the largest trees in the American tropics. The tree has played an important role in the spiritual and economic lives of the peoples who live in the circum-Caribbean region. The Ceiba is a rapidly growing deciduous tree that
Dunn, Oliver and James E. Kelley, Jr. (1989).