Weekend plantings: Floss silk flaunts cool-season blooms and grows well in Florida
Curious gardeners want to know: Is that wondrous tree from Brazil called silk floss – or floss silk? Well, floss silk is preferred, and it's easy t...
Curious gardeners want to know: Is that wondrous tree from Brazil called silk floss – or floss silk? Well, floss silk is preferred, and it's easy to remember because F comes before S in the alphabet. Or you could just call it by its other name – chorisia tree. What makes this 35- to 50-foot, deciduous species (Ceiba speciosa) so outstanding are its green trunk and limbs studded with large, silver-gray, conical thorns. And for gardeners hopelessly inept at plant propagation, this distinctive tree can be grown simply by sticking cuttings – even quite large limbs – directly into moist sites.