Red Silk Cotton Seed Pods

Description:

There was one solitary Red Silk Cotton Tree which was a bird magnet. That is what led to my interest in its life cycle. The flowers I will post later, but here is the unfolding of the seed pod.

Notes:

The individual seeds are encased in silky filaments and the entire seed pod is thickly stuffed as can be seen. the casing of the seed pod is green to begin with but becomes woodlike and bursts, releasing the seeds. The individual seeds when a pod bursts can make you sneeze if it gets up the nose....it is like "rain"and then it lies on the ground like snow flakes.