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Colour of flowers borne by Bombax malabaricum is

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Colour of flowers borne by Bombax malabaricum is Red.
Bombax malabaricum, commonly known as Silk cotton tree. This Asian tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage. It produces a capsule that, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals.
It is a tree used in Ayurvedic traditional medicine to treat many ailments and health conditions and is part of many ayurvedic traditional medicinal remedies.
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