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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors take a boat trip to enjoy the scenery of kapok flowers on the Changhua River in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 15, 2026. The kapok tree, also known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sustainable fashion brand called tentree has started using “the world’s most sustainable fiber” in its range of clothing. 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 ...

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 ...