The Kapok Tree Inn was a legendary, grand-scale dining destination in Clearwater, Florida, a celebrated 'escape' for locals and tourists alike for decades. Built in the 1950s around a massive, century ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok—the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok ...

Putting on gray work gloves and yellow helmets, students from local elementary schools Thursday morning helped celebrate Florida Arbor Day by planting a kapok tree at Phipps Ocean Park in Palm Beach. ...

Q. I was alerted to an article you wrote in 2004 about killing off cottonwood and elm tree root shoots or sprouts. I am building a new house in Sarasota, Florida, and had to remove a 50-plus year old ...