Bibliography on Ceiba pentandra

Ceiba Pentandra photographed by Maria Alejandra Gutierrez with a Google PXL.

Ceiba trees can attain 50 meters in height and are characterized by large buttress, swollen trunks, spreading crowns, stout spines on trunks and branches, and palmately compound leaves with five to sever leaflets. The flowers of Ceiba pentandra are abundant on mature trees, but are inconspicuous with comparatively small petals and only five stamens (Zidar, & Elisens 2009).

To the Maya, the ceiba (Yaxche) was a sacred tree that mapped out the upper, middle, and underworlds, represented the five directions, and stood in the exact center of the Earth, that is why it was called the “World Tree”, “green tree,” “first tree” or Ya’axche’ in maya. It has also been represented as a “cross–like” image, very common on sculpted elements such as palace walls, stelae, and sarcophagus lids and appeared infrequently on ceramics (Zidar, & Elisens 2009).

In addition to its beauty and cultural value for the Maya, some of the following references listed here mention important properties of Ceiba pentandra, just like nutritional potential and antipyretic activity of its leaves, and antioxidative constituent from its stem bark.

What else could we learn from the majestic tree?

PDF, Articles, Books on Ceiba pentandra

DICK, C. W., BERMINGHAM, E., LEMES, M. R. and R, GRIBEL
2007
Extreme long-distance dispersal of the lowland tropical rainforest Ceiba pentandra L.
(Malvaceae) in Africa and the Neotropics. Molecular Ecology. No. 16. Pages 3039-3049.

Available Online:
http://stri.si.edu/sites/publications/PDFs/2007_DickC_etal_Bermingham_ExtL.pdf

ENECHI, O. C., CHIBUIKE, P., OKECHUKWU, U., UDEH, M. C. and OMEH, S.
2013
Evaluation of the nutritional potential of Ceiba pentandra leaves. Mintage journal of
pharmaceutical & medical scienes. Vol. 2, No. 3. Pages 25-27.

Available Online:
www.mjpms.in/articles/evaluation-of-the-nutritional-potential-ofceiba-pentandra-leaves.pdf

FITRIA, A. and M. EFDI
2015
Isolation and characterization of antioxidative constituent from stem bark extract of Ceiba
pentandra L. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. Vol. 7, No. 10. Pages 257-260.

Available Online:
www.jocpr.com/articles/isolation-and-characterization-of-antioxidative-constituent-from-stem
-bark-extract-of-ceiba-pentandra-l.pdf

KUMAR, Y., KISHORE, K., VASU, D. and D. K. GUPTA
2009
Physico-chemical analysis of Ceiba pentandra (Kapok). International Journal of Theoretical
& Applied Sciences. Vol. 1, No. 2. Pages 15-18.

Available Online:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.689.5471&rep=rep1&type=pdf

HONORATO, J. A., COLOTL, G., APOLINAR, F. and J. ABURTO
2015
Principales componentes químicos de la madera de Ceiba pentandra, Hevea brasiliensis y
Ochroma pyramidale. Madera y Bosques. Vol, 21, No. 2. Pages 131-146.

Available Online:
www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/mb/v21n2/v21n2a9.pdf

LOBO, J. A., QUESADA, M. and K. E. STONER
2005
Effects of pollination by bats on the mating system of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae)
populations in two tropical life zones in Costa Rica. American Journal of Botany. Vol. 92, No. 2.
Pages 370-376.

Available Online:
http://ww2.oikos.unam.mx/CIEco/polinizacion/files/Lobo,Quesada&Stoner2005.pdf

MEKAR, N. and DESWATI, D. A.
2015
The antipyretic activity of leaves extract of Ceiba pentandra better than Gossypium arboreum.
Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science. Vol. 5, No. 7. Pages 118-121.

Available Online:
www.japsonline.com/admin/php/uploads/1563_pdf.pdf

MOJICA, E. R., MERCA, F. E. and J. R. MICOR
2002
Fiber of kapok (Ceiba pentandra) as component of a metal sensor for lead in water samples.
Philippine Journal of Crop Science. Vol. 27, No. 2. Pages 37-42.

Available Online:
www.cabi.org/gara/FullTextPDF/2009/20093019274.pdf

MUTIARA, E., RACHIMOELLAH, M., SANTOSO, N. and F. PRADANA
2012
Biodiesel production from kapok seed oil (Ceiba pentandra) through the transesterification process
by using cao as catalyst. Global journal of researches in engineering. Vol. 12, No. 2. Pages 1-7.

Available Online:
https://globaljournals.org/GJRE_Volume12/2-Biodiesel-Production-from-Kapok-Seed.pdf

PERAZA, L. N.
2009
La ceiba (Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.), un árbol majestuoso. Herbario CICY. Vol. 1, No. 1-2.
Pages 1-2.

Available Online:
www.cicy.mx/Documentos/CICY/Desde_Herbario/2009/2009-02-18-Peraza-Ceiba.pdf

RIJA, A. A., SAID, A., MWITA, J. and K. A. MWAMENDE
2013
Floss release, seed fall and germination of kapok seeds (Ceiba pentandra) in an urban environment.
Open Journal of Ecology. Vol. 3, No. 6. Pages 423-430.

Available Online:
https://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJE_2013102217155970.pdf

RIVERA, D.
2011
Ceiba pentandra. Ornamentales y su cultivo. Vol. 1, No. 3. Pages 1-4.

Available Online:
http://academic.uprm.edu/danrivera/Plantas_Ornamentales_en_Puerto_Rico/Publicaciones_files/2011v
1n3%20Ceiba.pdf

ROJAS, J., BUDDE, K., FERNÁNDEZ, M., CHACÓN, E., QUESADA, M. and J. A. LOBO
2008
Phenology and pollination biology of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in the wet forest of south-eastern
Costa Rica. Biologiezentrum. No. 80. Pages 539-545.

Available Online:
www.zobodat.at/pdf/STAPFIA_0088_0539-0545.pdf

SEGLEAU, J.
2008
Árboles medicinales: el ceiba. Kurú: Revista Forestal (Costa Rica). Vol. 5, No. 14. Pages 1-4.

Available Online:
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/5123246.pdf