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Ceiba speciosa (fka: Chorisia speciosa) - Kapok Tree, Floss Silk Tree Seed Pod


Ceiba speciosa (fka: Chorisia speciosa) - Kapok Tree, Floss Silk Tree Seed Pod (Ceiba speciosa (fka: Chorisia speciosa) - Kapok Tree, Floss Silk Tree)

For Mushybanna. Here's the Kapok tree's seed pod or fruit...when it splits open the cottony kapok will make a large cotton ball. Photo taken in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. on April 9, 2009.



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Thanks Delonix1.
Its great to see these things that i would never see.
keep them coming

14 Jul, 2010

 

Mushybanna:

There will be much more. : > )

15 Jul, 2010



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