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Silk Floss Tree
This tree popped up in the arroyo a block from my house a couple of years ago. It is right next to the street, so I see it every time I leave my house. It produces huge pods full of kapok.
For Cee’s FOTD
These trees go from leaves and stunningly exotic flowers to big seed pods that burst open and fall to the ground to reveal these large puffs of silk floss. The seeds can be used to produce cooking oil and the floss used like kapok.
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I am so fascinated by this tree that I pulled over to the side of the road to photograph this one. This is its final stage, when the flowers have formed into pods that have broken open to spill out their floss. In some of the photos, you can see pods that haven’t burst open. These bundles are large–some eight inches to a foot long. They were used in much the same ways as kapok—for mattress stuffing and protection of items for packing and shipping.
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You can see their luscious blooms HERE.
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More weightless
Weightless for the time being.
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Here’s a closeup view of the wonderful flowers of the Silk Floss Tree. It is ceiba speciosa- such an interesting tree that I’m going to do another posting on it, showing its trunk and large seed pods as well.)
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And, the tree itself.
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