Ceiba insignis and Ceiba speciosa are added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca.

* Ceiba speciosa — Palo borracho ( Southern Brazil, Northeastern Argentina, Paraguay )

File: Flordepaineiraabelha. jpg | Flower of Ceiba speciosa, Paineira rosa, São Paulo, Brazil

File: Paineiraespinhuda. JPG | Trunk of Ceiba speciosa ( Paineira rosa ), São Paulo, Brazil

File: Cebia speciosa X C insignis open at 1006pm 14nov08. jpg | Ceiba speciosa × C. insignis, a Huntington seedling flower, San Marino, California

The silk floss tree ( Ceiba speciosa, formerly Chorisia speciosa ), is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America.

Ceiba speciosa is added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca.

File: Ceiba speciosa IMG 1753. jpg | Flowered pink specimen, in a road at Mogi-Mirim, near Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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The strike was suppressed by the Honduran military, but the following year additional labor disturbances occurred at the Standard Fruit Company's holding in La Ceiba.

The largest of these installations were the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba, the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, and the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility ( AFWTF ) on Vieques ( all now closed ), the National Guard training facility at Camp Santiago in Salinas, the Army's Fort Buchanan in San Juan, the former U. S. Air Force Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, and the Puerto Rico Air National Guard at Muñiz Air Force base in San Juan.

The Ceiba tree is represented by a cross and serves as an important architectural motif in the Temple of the Cross Complex at Palenque.

In 2008, VAL added a new route between Antonio Rivera Rodríguez Airport ( VQS ) in Vieques and the new José Aponte de la Torre Airport ( RVR ) at the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Ceiba, shortening the flight between Vieques and the Puerto Rican mainland to seven or eight minutes in a Cessna Caravan.

Conspicuous trees at the Tikal park include gigantic kapok ( Ceiba pentandra ) the sacred tree of the Maya ; Tropical cedar ( Cedrela odorata ), and Honduras Mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ).

* La Ceiba: A large and old Ceiba tree on a street corner at the west of the city.

Sustained winds on the island peaked at in Ceiba, and gusts reached in Carolina.

Pico Bonito Mountain in the far right background In 1872 Manuel Hernandez built a small shack under the Ceiba tree that was at one point by the old docks.

* On 4 April 1990, an Isleña Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter ( registered HR-ALH ) landed in the water short off the runway at Útila Airport, following a scheduled passenger flight from La Ceiba with 18 passengers on board.

Cordillera Nombre de Dios mountains in Pico Bonito National Park taken from the western side of La Ceiba

Ceiba Tree Park located in San Antón, Ponce, Puerto Rico ; its centerpiece is the historic Ceiba de Ponce, a 500 year old " Ceiba pentandra " tree associated with the founding of the city.

Ceiba should not be confused with the vernacular name ceibo ( Erythrina crista-galli ), the national tree of Argentina and Uruguay.

A census of 1899 revealed that northern Honduras had been exporting bananas for several years and that over 1, 000 people in the region between Puerto Cortes and La Ceiba ( and inland as far as San Pedro Sula ) were tending bananas, most of them small holders.

Coastal cities such as La Ceiba, Tela, and Trujillo and towns further inland such as El Progreso and La Lima became virtual company towns.

On February 28, a pitched battle took place in La Ceiba between government troops and rebels.

The central part of the Caribbean lowlands, east of La Ceiba, is a narrow coastal plain only a few kilometers wide.

Both Puerto Cortés, the country's largest port, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras's industrial capital, are located here, as is La Ceiba, the third largest city in the country.

Asian-owned export assembly firms ( maquiladoras ), operating mostly in free zones established by the government on the Caribbean coast, attract thousands of job seekers and swell the populations of new city centers such as San Pedro Sula, Tela, and La Ceiba.

By 1990 an additional five free zones were in operation in Omoa, Coloma, Tela, La Ceiba, and Amapala.

Passenger train in La Ceiba on January 11, 2005.

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Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae ( previously separated in the family Bombacaceae ), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and ( as the variety C. pentandra var.

Ceiba pentandra bark decoction has been used as a diuretic, aphrodisiac, and to treat headache, as well as type II diabetes.

Ceiba pentandra is used as an additive to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca.

* Ceiba pentandra in Brunken, U., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Janssen, T., Thombiano, A.

In La Ceiba in Honduras, Carnival is held on the fourth Saturday of every May to commemorate San Isidro.

On April 25, 2002, Lopes was killed in a car crash in La Ceiba, Honduras.

On April 25, 2002 in La Ceiba, Honduras, Lopes was killed when she lost control while driving a Mitsubishi Montero Sport.

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America, South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.

The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra.

Recent botanical opinion incorporates Chorisia within Ceiba, raising the number of species from 10 to 20 or more, and puts the genus as a whole within the family Malvaceae.

Ceiba species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix ceibae which feeds exclusively on the genus.