Derived from the subtropical forest of South America. Silk Floss is now widespread throughout South Florida, and appreciated for the beautiful flowers. But to get precious flowers is clearly no easy task, because the giant thorns that cover the trunk and branches. How to pick them?
In cotton flower pods are used as filling for pillows, and the wood from tree floss silk used in packaging, and for the manufacture of paper. But this thorn tree most often planted for ornamental purposes along city streets. God forbid you get wasted one night and coolided with one of these things.
Hercules Club (Aralia Spinosa)
The name of this tree is given by an old tree like prickly cones on the skin that make trunks and branches look like a stick. Hercules Club is native North America, and spread over the eastern continents.
Large thorns of this tree may not look threatening for an experienced tree-climber, but if you look closer, every tree has sharp edge that can cause pain. To be eaten, Hercules Club makes more sense. If you consider this tree as a defense mechanism againts grazing animals that once controlled the country.
Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)
Just as Hercules Club, Honey Locus is native of eastern North America, and can be seen from South Dakota to South New Orleans and Central Texas. This tree is really interesting, with features 3-4" inch long spines that can cause serious injuries, if you're not carefully. They grow on the trunks and lower branches, which probably means they have evolved as defense machanism against animals fed on the skin.
Honey Locust thorn from this foot injury, often causing, because they then to go right through soft sole shoes and feet. If you pass one of these trees, you will often have the opportunity to get a flat tire. Some even claimed to have seen the big bird was pierced by a thorn tree Honey Locust.
Kapok (Ceiba pentandra)
Kapok is tropical tree, native of Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Mayans believe that upholding the sacred Ceiba tree omen of the world, with roots going down and down. Ancient incense burner and funeral urns, found in the Maya area, features a sharp Kapok motivated, up and down their sides.
Fibers contained by the flowers of the Kapok is used to fill mattresses, pillows, stuffed toys, oil seeds used in the manufacture of soap, and gum from the Kapok is a traditional stomach ailments. Fortunately, the sharp thorns of fallen trees due to age.
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