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Silk Floss Tree (Chorisia speciosa)
KapokFloss Silk Tree
Chorisia speciosa
Silk Floss Tree
KapokFloss Silk Tree
The Silk floss tree with pale green leaves palmately divided into 5-7 pointed leaflets. The young trees start out growing fast, straight, and narrow, then slowly develop broadly spreading umbrella canopies as they age. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. Silk Floss trees typically drop their leaves just before they put on their spectacular autumn display of five-petaled flowers. The petals vary from pale pink to rose to purple or burgundy at the tips and grade into ivory with brownish spots or blotches at the base.
This tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses. The seedpod silk has been used to stuff cushions.
ColorFlowerFormThorns
South America
30 - 60 FT
30 - 60 FT
Y
Medium Green
Coarse
Shrub : Small Tree : Tree
Pink : Purple : Rose Pink
Fall
Average
Sun (minimum 8 hours direct sun)
Well-drained
Medium
Sunset Zones
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