{"id":4105,"date":"2015-08-20T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2015-08-20T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T05:08:53","slug":"plant-mystery-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=4105","title":{"rendered":"Plant Mystery\u2013What Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few nights ago my nephew sent images of a plant that he saw on a walk in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

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\"Foliage<\/p>\n

Foliage and Flowers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Pods\"<\/p>\n

Pods<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Seeds<\/p>\n

Seeds and Silk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I thought that it might be in the milkweed family, but most of the Asclepias pods that I have seen have a nubby texture.<\/p>\n

I sent my nephew an email with my thoughts. Later I received an email from his mother and she thought it was similar to the silk cotton tree, Kapok<\/a>. I checked out her guess, and noticed there were several differences.<\/p>\n

So, I sent an email to my friend who works at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley<\/a><\/a>. And this is what he wrote\u2013<\/p>\n

Calotropis procera (formerly Asclepias…good call). The Kapok tree (either Ceiba pentandra or Ceiba speciosa or [Chorisa speciosa]) is quite a robust tree which has prominent black spines on the trunk, even when young.<\/p>\n

I googled Calotropis<\/a> and found this great picture to confirm the mystery plant\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

\"Calotropis\"<\/p>\n

Mystery solved!<\/p>\n

Thanks, Bryan.<\/p>\n

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