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3/4/24, 10:55 AM Watch: ‘O2 Engineers’ plant bottle-shaped Chorisia or Silk Floss trees with pink-red flowers for first time in Dubai | Uae – Gulf News
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It also released a video that showed how municipal workers, wearing fluorescent

yellow uniforms that describe them as ‘O2 Engineers’, plant these trees and seasonal

flowering plants at the project site. O2 is the chemical formula for oxygen, which is

produced by plants.

The Chorisia tree (Chorisia Speciosa) belongs to the mallow family, featuring a broad,

swollen stem that serves as a water reservoir, the municipality said. According to a

species account published by the University of Redlands in California, its common

name is Silk Floss Tree.

The tree is native to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. It is also found elsewhere, used as a
decorative tree.

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