slik tree are usually found next to streams, rivers, and swamps. Due to the strength of the tree, these trees are frequently used to make canoes, wooden tool handles, and are used as lumber for various construction projects.
They used Silk from Spiders or cloth from the tree
There are a number of plants that use or have the word Silk in thier common names;These include:Albizia julibrissin (Persian silk tree, pink silktree)Bombax ceiba (Red Silk Cotton Tree)Ceiba pentandra (Kapok, Ceiba or Silk Cotton Tree)There are also such things as "silk plants" which are fake or artificial plants that are made of silk. They are commonly used as decorations.
I don't think there's such a thing as a silk tree (rather there is one that is nick named silk tree but it doesn't exactly produce silk.) The fluffy 'Kapok' material comes from a Kapok tree.
silk worms are tiny worms hanging from silk on a tree
The Kapok tree produces seeds with a silk type covering. This fiber is used commercially as pillow stuffing.
Silk Cotton Tree
No. Silk-cotton is a man-made blend of Silk and Cotton. * Cotton is spun from the flowering seed heads of the cotton plant * Silk is spun from the cocoons of silkworms, which feed on leaves of the mulberry tree
I believe the story is that the emperess of china was sitting under a tree drinking tea and a silkworm fell into her tea and it's body melting created silk and that is how silk was discovered and the Chinese discovered it
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Silkworms are like to eat leaves from a Mullberry Tree. They also like rotten cheese!!!!!!!
The Silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra).
No. And nor do silk moths feed on the eucalyptus tree.