In late spring and early summer the branches of a cottonwood tree can become very ghostly!
I walked under a Fremont cottonwood by the San Diego River this morning. My eyes were intrigued by the windblown white “cotton” that had collected on its own gray limbs and branches.
Check out the upcoming photos. Those drooping white puffs that resemble cotton candy are actually a fruit called achene. Seeds are dispersed by the wind.
I’m no botanist, so I don’t pretend to understand much about it.
I do know, however, that these seeds can plant themselves in a fertile imagination. The cottonwood’s fuzzed branches appear ethereal, like phantom forms from some unearthly world…
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The cottonwood tree looks strange and mystical with all this fluff growing on it. Must look like snow when the wind blows it from the branches
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It does look like snow!
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Nice to see a lovely cottonwood tree without sneezing! Thanks for the pictrues!
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