They caught my eye while I was driving this morning... Those clumps of white balls that, at first, I thought were cotton balls that somehow got snagged on the branches of the tree...
This is a kapok tree, right? And those white balls are the white fibers that have bursted at the seams of their pods!
Kapok brings back a lot of memories of my childhood; those days when kapok was used to stuff our pillows and mattresses, our stuffed toys, our upholstery and more! I wonder if we still have a kapok industry today.
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