Kapok is also known as the hero flower, it is not only beautiful, but also has a wide range of uses and high medicinal value. There is a saying in Guangdong, kapok blossom, winter no longer comes, meaning that as long as you see the kapok blossom, the warmth of spring is also coming. Early spring in February, it is the day of the kapok blossom, in my town some of the planted kapok trees, has been one after another brilliant flowers, far away, a tree of orange and red, looks extraordinarily vibrant.
In addition to the high ornamental value of the cottonwood, its flowers, skin, roots have medicinal value. The sun-dried kapok porridge or soup, you can detoxify and clear the heat to expel cold and dampness; kapok skin boiled water also has heat, diuretic, detoxification, etc., on chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, diarrhea, dysentery, etc., has a significant therapeutic effect.
In addition, the use of kapok is also very wide, its pistil is a very good fabric material, the ancient book records "kapok tree two or three feet high, cut like tung, two or three months flower both Xie, the core of the sheep. They weave for the blanket, white as snow, warm and incomparable." The cottonwood wood is soft, can be made of packing boxes, match stems, wooden boats, barrels and pots, etc., or papermaking raw materials.