The Kapok Tree in Davie was more than just a restaurant and catering hall during its glory days four decades ago. It was THE place where memories were made. Today, the site is the Long Key Natural ...

Two 80-year-old kapok trees in Boynton Beach each hold history and cherish city memories, but one faces an inevitable demise at the expense of the Town Square project. Both kapok trees were planted in ...

Scattered around the equator, the kapok tree yields pods that contain a fluffy fruit, five times lighter than cotton, long used by locals as stuffing material. But in today’s race to find fibers for ...

Grand. Awesome. Inspiring. Beautiful. Those are among the words you used to describe the giant kapok tree on the Lake Trail when we asked for your photos and memories of the 186-year-old tree. The ...

Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South ...

Hong Kong's beloved kapok trees are no longer blooming the way they used to, drawing concern from conservationists who see it as a sign that nature is falling out of sync as the climate warms. Hong ...