However, there were no flowers to be seen. Why? A The silk floss tree, also known as the kapok tree, is a distant relative of the hibiscus and is native to South America. Botanically, it was given ...

I saw a bright pink spot up in a tree and thought it was the light playing with me, but the pretty bloom was revealed as I got closer. I should have known; it’s time for silk floss trees to ...

The Floss Silk Tree, a conspicuous “autumn bloomer” here and there around San Diego, has been showing off its pinkish (or purplish) hibiscus-like flowers for at least a month now. The broad ...

Growth habit: A deciduous tree often with a large thorn-covered trunk that develops a rounded, open-growth habit growing to 50 feet tall and wide. The leaves are compound consisting of five to ...