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Organic Herbs and Spices:

Organic Herbs

Simal ko ful (Silk Cotton Tree)

Bombax ceiba L.

Deciduous tree about 40 m high, branched in all directions. Leaves long petioled, digitate, leaflets 5 to 7, stalked, 5 to 20 cm long, 2 to 6 cm wide, lanceolate, cupidate, entire, smooth, base tapering. Flowers red, fascicled at or near the end of branches. Main trunk and limb with numerous conical spines in young but eroded in older. Flowers from February to March. Fruits from April to June.

Description:

Dried flowers are traded for Cotton-like fibrous stuff. Outer part of flower is slightly hard, rough brown. Inner part of flower is slightly red in color and soft.

Uses:

Cotton-like fibrous stuff is commonly used for stuffing economically priced pillows, cushions, quilts and mattresses. Resin, bark, flower and roots are used as medicine in the treatment of Dysentery and stomach related diseases. Its flower and fruits are used as medicine during snake bite. Roots are used as Stimulant, Energetic and Aphrodisiac.
The fruit is cooked and eaten and also pickled.

Additional information

Essential oil containers available:
10gm, 1kg, 25kg or custom size

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