bombax

According to some it is acacia; others declare it to be the "blood" of the bombax, which is also used for caulking.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

“blood” of the bombax, which is also used for caulking.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

I had ruled out bombax because of geography...the source I found limited it to Africa not so far from Israel, of course.

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At El Venado, waves crash onto the rocks at one end of the bay, splashing foam into the branches of a lovely white-flowering bombax tree.

Rincon de Guayabitos revisited: the major sights nearby 2003

At El Venado, waves crash onto the rocks at one end of the bay, splashing foam into the branches of a lovely white-flowering bombax tree.

Rincon de Guayabitos revisited: the major sights nearby 2003

The surface was a stubble strewn with the usual trees; the portly bombax; the calabash, now naked and of wintry aspect; and the dark evergreen palmyra, in dots and streaks upon the red-yellow field, fronted by an edging of grass, whose king, cyperus papyrus, is crowned with tall heads waving like little palms.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The men especially pride themselves upon canoe-making; the favourite wood is the buoyant Okumeh or bombax, that monarch of the African forest.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The Nteba, or palmyra nobilis, mixed here and there with a glorious tamarind, bombax or calabash, forms a thin forest along the reach, and rarely appears upon the upper hills, where we should expect it.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The site of the settlement is on the right or northern bank behind the projection, a slip of morass backed by swamps and thick growths, chiefly bombax, palm and acacia, lignum vitae, the mammee-apple and the cork-tree, palmyra, pandanus, and groves of papyrus.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

It stood in a pretty little bay, and the river, some 400 feet broad, was fronted, as is often the case, by the “palaver tree,” a glorious Ceiba or bombax.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003