Silk Floss Tree Ceiba speciosa

 

This is the back road I take to Beaus, vets office, because it is on the Road To The Beach. OY VEY! The Traffic. none here though.

I pulled under the Silk Floss Tree also known as Ceiba speciosa

and left the car there to pick up Beaus RX from the vet. I go once a month. In a past 

I showed  you the orchid like flowers it grows. This time it was the sun on the thorns.

I LOVE THIS TREE

To see the flowers I took back in 2020 CLICK HERE.. there is one of these that is 60 feet high, on the road I take to shop at Walmart, Maybe one day I will grab a shot of it. in the link shows this one is Pink Silk Floss and what at the library that is Red Silk Floss

Joining Rosy and Sunny at LLB for Nature Friday

Silk Floss, Kakok Tree on Nature Friday

 

Silk Floss, also Kopok Tree, Lunapic edit

this tree is Art all by itself, each time I park beside it, I sit and stare in Wonder at those thorns.

they are common here in Florida, not as common as Pine trees or Palms, but a few in most neighborhoods.

If you look through THIS LINK, you will see that this tree ranges in size from small to ginormous 

Once Upon a trip to the library

Last Saturday, I stepped out of our Library and gasped with delight! GASP with me NOW!

it is a Red Silk Cotton Tree....The tree blooms in March and April for two glorious months of color, not a leaf on it, just the fruit and flowers that look like red lilies to me.

The tree is widely planted in Malay, Indonesia, south China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and India, and is a common in our sub tropics here in Central Florida

the fruit is used as a substitute for cotton and the flowers for herbal tea.

The trunk has lots of thorns on it to protect the tree from animals, like elephants rubbing on it and turning it over. (no elephants here in Florida that I know of)

Are you gasping YET? if not you Will when you see the crazy photographer....

Isn't she gorgeous? do you like her camera?