Common name in Mexico:
Achiotl (nahuatl), Acanguarica, Achiote, Omato, Auau, Uruca, Bosh, Cuypuc, Chancuarica, Patuca, entre otros.
Flower:
Big flowers, from 2 to 4 pink flowers, reddish or white color, from 4 to 6 cm of diameter; chalice of 5 sepals, chestnut-colored green that soon fall down.
Distribution:
It is distributed principally in southeast Mexican. Altitude from 0 to 1200 m. States: Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatan.
 
Restorer effect / Service to ambience
Restorer effect: This plant has been used to rehabilitate places where there was mining development.
Services: 1. Wind braker barrier. planted in line makes a very effective curtain. 2.Barrier against fires.3.Alive fence in agrohabitat 4. The pink flowers and the thorny fruits give him a very attractive ornamental aspect.

Common name in Mexico:
Ceiba

Flower:
Numerous flowers in fascicles in the armpits of the fallen sheets, from 4 to 8 cm. of length; flowers actino formic, perfumed; green chalice in the shape of glass, cupul form, thick and beefy; white petals or roses, yellow or golden.

Fruit:
Elliptical capsules from 8 to 1 4 cm. of length by 4.5 to 7 cm. of breadth. It contains many seeds and woolly fibers. The fruit contains 120 to 175 seeds.
Seeds:
Black seeds from 4 to 8 mm long surrounded by abundant silky white hair to silver gray.

Distribution:
In the slope of the Gulf are distributed from the south of Tamaulipas up to the Peninsula of Yucatan. And in the slope of the Pacific Ocean from Sonorous up to Chiapas.

Restorer effect / Service to ambience
Restorer effect: 1. Soil conservation / erosion control. 2.Improves the fertility of the soil / rehabilitates grounds of culture poor or degraded. 3. coverage of fallen leaves.
Services: 1.Shade for cattle.2. . Wind braker barrier. 3. Ornamental is planted in parks, avenues, side ways.
Eatable: Seed contains 30 % to 40 % of an oil used industrially to make margarines. The seed is eatable cooked or toasts, the sheets, flowers and fruits usually eat stews.
Cosmetic: The oil is used to make soaps.
Fibers: The cottony fiber that envolves the seeds (kapok) is used in the industry as insulating thermal and acoustic in cameras and planes, as filling of mattresses, pillows and lifebelt.
Medicine: Crust: Wounds, grains, antispasmodic, emetic rheumatism and diuretic.
Exudado(trunk) : intestinal illnesses. Sheets: It contains camphor;
Stem: anti inflammatory of abscesses and tumors, toothache

Common name in Mexico:
Higuera, chuna, Yaga-yaxo-castilla.

Restorer effect / Services to ambience
Restorer effect: 1. Soil conservation / erosion control.. 2.It stabilizes the soils across the development of his radical extensive system.. 3.Recovery of degraded areas. His adaptability to adverse situations and the development of his root system make her viable in the processes of rehabilitation. It has been used to rehabilitate places where there was mining development.
Services: 1. Wind brake barrier. 2. Ornamental, Plant of very common decoration of the green areas of Mexico. They can do ' bonsais ' due to the characteristics of his radical system. 3. Shade / Refuge. It offers an abundant and constant production of fruits to a wide status of flying vertebrates.

Uses:.
Eatable(seed, latex): Eatable (seed, latex): Manufacture of lubricants. The latex has started evaluating as commercial source of enzymes proteolitica to soften meats, substitute of rennet to ferment the milk, explanatory of drinks.
Eatable(fruit, kandy, oil): Fruit of major content of sugar in the world (up to 64 % of his weight in dehydration). One eats crude oil, in tanning or jam. I dry. The seed possesses eatable oil. It is a very nourishing, high content of Vitamin To, B and C.
Seasoning / spices (sheets): The tender sheets are used as seasoning.
Forage(fruit, sheet) : . offers nourishing forage to cattle, pig, caprino and obvino.
Medicinal (fruit, sheet, branch, seed, latex): Baking of the fruit for sore throat (gargles), inflamed gums, asthma, antitusivo, complaints of the pleen, fill, wounds and abscesses. toasted fruits (coffee of fig) for sharp pneumonias, pulmonary colds, bronchitis. Lacoccion of the sheets takes as a remedy for the diabetes and calcifications in the kidneys and liver, pectoral, sudorifico and emollient. Baking of the branches against the dropsy. Sheets spent by warm water for tripe. The seeds place a big laxative power. The latex is used in the cut millstones and in the verugas.

Common name in Mexico:
Huizache, Guizache, aromo, Bihi, Cuca; Fiñisache; Flor de niño, Gabia, Lai-do-no, and other..

Ecological importance
Secondary species. Important element of the secondary vegetation that caducifolio happens to the tropical forest. It forms dense affiliations so-called "huisaches". Warning of mentally disturbed places. The huisache has potential to occupy a wider than distribution status the current one. In them Reside it is an optional component of the top stratum of the mezquitales or forests of Prosopis.
Restorer effect / Services to ambience
Restorer effect:
1.It stabilizes sand banks. Recommended to brake the advance of the movable sand. 2. Conservation of the soil / Control of the erosion.3.Recovery of areas chemically degraded degraded (soils). 4.Fixation of nitrogen.
Services:
1. Ornamental. By the beauty of his yellow and fragrant flowers. 2.Brakewind barrier . 3. Shadow / refuge. 4. Alive fence in the agriculture habitats.

Common names in Mexico :
Papelillo, Cohuite, Copalillo, Chaca, Chachah, chakan, Hukup, Lon-sha-la-ec, Tzaca, Ta'sun, Chicohuistle, Jiote colorado, and others.

Distribution:
It can be found from Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi, up to Yucatan and Quintana Roo in the slope of the Gulf and from Sinaloa up to the central depression of Chiapas in the Pacific Ocean.
States: Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Nobleman, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatan. 
Restorer effect / Services to ambience
Restorer effects: 1. Drainage for floded soil 2. Conservation of the soil / control of erosion. 3. It stabilizes sand banks.
Services: 1. Wind brake barrier. Planted in line forms a very effective curtain. 2. Alive fence in agrohabitats. 3. Ornamental along the highways and in the streets in urban and rural zones. By his crust of attractive color it has been used as ornamental tree in the south of flowery.
4. Shade / refuge. It is an important resource of nutrition for the wild life that spends the winter in the Antilles and Central America.

Uses:
Adhesive(latex): The resin is used as substitute of the tail and as cement to give pieces ritas of faience, glass and pewter.
Permufimg(latex): Latex and aromatic fruits. The resin is known like "chibou", resin of "gomart". Boiled in water and hardened it is used like copal as incense..
Handmade(wood): The wood is soft and light for what is much appreciated for the making of crafts, toys and turned articles.
Combustible(wood): Firewood and coal.
construction(wood): Rural construction, interior constructions, is not adapted for external use.
Forrajero(Sheet, shoot, fruit, seed): Forage plant for baby of animals breeding inside a lot.
Industrializable (wood, latex): Pulp for role and manufacture of varnish and lacquers.
Insecticide (latex): The aromatic resin latex of the crust can be used to repel insects.
Meliferous(flower): Beekeeping. It provides propoleo for the beehive.

Common name in Mexico:
Papaya, papayo, Dungue, Otzo, Tutun-chichi, Tzipi, and other.

Origin / Extenxsion
It would cause of Mesoamerica. His place of exact origin is not known (south of Mexico, Central America, Costa Rica, Brazil).

Experience with the plant
Plantation comerical / productive / experimental
Commercial monocultures and polycultures.
Reafforestation / restoration: Urban plantation. It is a species with potential for productive reafforestation in degraded forests zones.
System forest-agriculture: Familiar orchard, hoist for shade.

Restorer effect / Service to ambience
Restorer effect: 1. Recovery of degraded areas.

Uses:
Eatable(fruit, drink, vegetable) The fruit is a big eatable berry that measures 10 to 15 cm long, going so far as to weigh up to 7 kilograms. They are rich in vitamins A, B, C, and D.
Cosmetic(seed): Seeds contain 20 to 30 % of not drying oil that has applications in soapdishes and pharmacist industries.
Forrage(leaf, fruit): The foliage has been used as food source for fish. The fruit consumes the cattle.
Insecticide / Toxic (latex): Vermicid
Handmade. The petiole of the sheet is hollow and there are improvised flutes with which the children play.
Medicinal. The fruit, latex, seed and root are used. Of between his properties they emphasize that of being: analgesic, antibiotic, amebicida, antibacterial, cardiotonico, colagogo, digestive, emenagogo, febrífugo, hipotensivo, laxativo, pectoral, estomáquico and vermífugo.
Contraceptive: Has been discovered by experimentation in rats that the seeds of the mature fruit have active reactions that prepare the spermatic production and diminish the aptitude to fertilize the females in 40 %.
Anti parasite:. A dozen of swallowed seeds or a mixure of latex with honey are used like vermifuge. The juice of the fruit, the dust of seeds and the latex of the root and green fruit are used in Cuba against the tricocefales. The dry seeds have bactericidal properties and bacteriostáticas.
Medicinal:Medicinal:The papaine helps to dilute cancerous and lymphatic tumors. It has been used to dissolve abnormal formations that take place in the arteries in certain forms of arterioesclerosis, also it is an inflamationless agent desinflamatorio in cases of infections and traumatism. It eliminates protein matters caused by effusion (haematomas and liquids extravasados for blows and contusions). It has been suggested that the excessive consumption of papaya can induce cancer of prostate.
Meliferous. In beekeeping, it has been observed that the masculine flowers produce abundant nectar constituted by 100 % of saccharose and big quantity of amino acids. Nevertheless the feminine ones produce very little and do not contain nectar.