Botanical Name           : Bombax ceiba 

English Name               : Silk Cotton Tree Gum

Tamil Name                  : இலவம் பிசின் / Ilavam Pisin

Hindi Name                  : शाल्मली  / सेमल  /Semal / Shalmali

Malayalam Name        : ഉന്നമുറിക  / Unnamurika

Telugu Name                : బూరుగు   / Buruga

About Ilavam Pisin (Silk Cotton Tree):-

Silk cotton tree is a type of native cotton tree with large red flowers. It bears beautiful red-colored flowers from January to March. The phenomenon paints the whole landscape in an enchanting red hue. The fruit, the size of a ping-pong ball, on maturity appears during March and April. These are full of cotton-like fibrous stuff. Silk cotton tree is quite a fast-growing tree and can attain a girth of 2 to 3 m, and height about 30 m, in nearly 50 years or so. Its wood, when sawn fresh, is white in color. Bombax species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix crateracma which feeds exclusively on Bombax ceiba.

Internal Benefits of Ilavam Pisin (Silk Cotton Tree):-

• Seminal disorders
• A nocturnal emission, semen problems
• Blood purification
• Leucorrhoea
• Over bleeding in menstruation
• Improve breast milk
• Cold and cough
• Weakness

External Benefits of Ilavam Pisin (Silk Cotton Tree):-

• Acne, skin blemish, and pigmentation
• Wounds