Kapok Seeds

In Search of Kapok...

While most people go window shopping,
our family goes seed hunting.
It's amazing how ignorant
we have become of the natural world.

Where do pillows come from?
When we were growing up,
pillows were stuffed with real cotton.
From the great Kapok tree.
You know its real
because you can feel the seeds.

Now kids have pillows
made out of synthetic cotton.
You buy it from the mall
and its made up of artificial materials
and fire retardants.

Imagine how much time
we all spend with our pillows.
Not only do we sleep on them,
we breathe on them.

In one of our seed hunting trips,
we found kapok fruits,
and kapok seeds....

Kapok ( Cotton Tree)
Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae, 
native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and to tropical west Africa.Wikipedia