Kapok trees (cay gao in Vietnamese) are in full bloom around the Da Vien Bridge, which crosses the Huong (Perfume) River in the southwest of Hue. The trees are tended by workers of Hue Green Park ...

Springtime in Changjiang Li autonomous county, South China's Hainan province, looks like a scene from a painting. The vibrant red kapok flowers swaying in the gentle breeze against the backdrop of ...

The kapok tree’s bright, cheery flowers may inspire local governments to dot their cities with them, but motorists and pedestrians alike have long complained that they are irritating and a hazard.

Its flowers produce more than 50 gallons of nectar per tree in a season, attracting bats that travel as far as 12 miles between trees and transfer pollen in the process.

The kapok blossoms along Linchupi Kapok Road, once hailed as one of the top 15 flower roads in the world, attract hoards of visitors and photographers every year during flower season.

An amazing tropical tree is the kapok (Ceiba pentandra), a member of the Bombacaceae or Bombax family. The kapok is often the tallest tree in the rainforest.

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/Asia News Network): The 20th Kapok Flower Festival (Boun Dok Ngiew Ban) will be staged in Tonpheung district, Bokeo province, on a grander scale than in the past, with a ...

A kapok tree blooms in a local garden. These silk-cotton flowers have 5 petals. When ripe, its capsule contains white fibres like cotton. Picking up fallen flowers is a long-standing hobby of children ...

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 ...

Demand for life jacket filling sparked a kapok boom in early 20th-century Hong Kong, leaving the city a flowery legacy, writes Jason Wordie.