This is a flowering Kapok tree. It is one of many varieties of the Kapok trees family. I saw this in Benalmadena, Malaga, Spain during my recent holidays.
I walked past the tree many times and didn’t noticed anything unusual about it. One day, I saw some people looking, and pointing up at the tree. Out of curiosity, I stopped and looked up at the tree too – to see what they were so excited about.
I saw these ‘cotton balls’.
I thought they were flowers, but they were not. A friend explained, “... what's unusual about the Kapok is that the bud actually looks like a fruit itself. On these trees, they're like large olives and these burst and the flower comes out of that. Just how the fruit forms from there, I am not too sure, but they look like dark-coloured tennis balls - then the outer cover splits off and drops, leaving the cotton balls, which are actually the seeds of the tree.”
The buds look like olives.
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Kapok Tree
This is another variety of the Kapok tree. The flowers looked so different I wasn't sure if they were Kapok flowers until I googled them.
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