Seed Pod Puffs

seed puffs, originally uploaded by Honduras Sprout.

Seed puffs released from seed pods this past week in our neighborhood. I tried to figure out which type of tree they come from and think I've narrowed in down to the Kapok tree.

I would have liked if they were more like dandelion puffs or cottonwood tree seed puffs that blow around when you walk through them. It would have been a little more fun. There was a cottonwood tree up the street from where I grew up in MN and when the seeds were released it always looked like it was snowing in July and I enjoyed running through the cotton "snow". These seed puffs are a little more dense and tend to stay in one place once they've landed.