A silk tree’s starry, orchid blooms in late summer are followed by football-sized fruits. Soon, these fruits split open to reveal fluffy, silky fibers known as kapok that can be used as stuffing ...

A silky sifaka weighs between 11 and 14 pounds and measures up to three-and-a-half feet long. Silkies "fly like angels," local people say, leaping as far as ten yards from tree to tree.

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.

A silk tree’s starry, orchid blooms in late summer are followed by football-sized fruits. Soon, these fruits split open to reveal fluffy, silky fibers known as kapok that can be used as stuffing ...

A silk tree’s starry, orchid blooms in late summer are followed by football-sized fruits. Soon, these fruits split open to reveal fluffy, silky fibers known as kapok that can be used as stuffing ...