Kapok

Deciduous shrub or tree.
Size: 1 – 6 m high.
Leaves: Large lobed leaves.
Flowers: Bright yellow with 5 petals.
Fruit: After the yellow flowers are pollinated, large, globular, green, papery fruit develop. The fruit capsules are egg shaped and 6 – 10cm long. They eventually turn brown and split along the seams to release their seed. The small black seeds are woven in a dense mat of fine silky hairs.