Tree;
young trunks brown with corky prickles that persist on the bark
of mature trees; leaves alternate, palmately compound; leaflets
5 to 7, glabrous; flowers 15-23 cm long; calyx 3.5 cm long, tubular;
petals yellow, finely pubescent on the external surface; fruit
an elongate cylindrical capsule; seeds embedded among silky fibers
(kapok).
