There are many kinds of kapok trees, some with fruits and some without.The fruit with fruit is a capsule, which is oblong.The length is between 10 and 15 centimeters, and the thickness is 4.5 to 5 centimeters.The fruit is densely gray-white villous and contains many seeds, which are obovate and smooth.It usually blooms in March and April, and then bears fruit, which ripens in summer.Comparatively speaking, there are fewer fruits.
There are many kinds of kapok trees. There are about 200 kinds found now, but many of them can only blossom but will not bear fruit.Common varieties are long fruit kapok, tortoise kapok, big fruit kapok.Beauty tree, Jibei kapok.Green bark kapon.It, big belly kapon and African kapon and so on.Different varieties of shape, flowers, flowering, fruit and so on will also be different, not the same.
Among them, the most obvious difference between long fruit kapok and kapok is that its fruit is very long, up to 30 centimeters long and 5.5 centimeters thick.The skin is very smooth.In addition, its petals are longer and more slender than those of kapok.Most of them blossom in March, and the fruits will ripen in April.The fruit is chestnut brown, long cylindrical, glabrous on the surface, with 5 edges, and will crack along the edges when ripe.
