Q: As the co-director of the Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, I am attempting to obtain a Ceiba tree to honor the woman ...

A tree that has towered over Sierra Leone for centuries and symbolised freedom to formerly enslaved people has been felled by a storm. The 70-metre (230ft) Ceiba pentandra – known to Sierra Leoneans ...

It might be time to say goodbye to the iconic kapok tree at the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB). The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) has long since been valued by the school and its ...

Silk cotton (Ceiba pendantra) trees are having a productive spell now in Chennai, and they better make the most of it, as they would soon slip into obscurity and that would be their lot when they are ...

Several species of Ceiba (pronounced SAY-ba) from Tropical America are called silk floss trees, and all are deciduous, fall and winter blooming plants that perform well in Central Florida. These ...