Los Angeles, but I do not think that the trees are indigenous to this area.

I don't recall what the flowers look like.

Bark is thorny, with sharp, short and very hard thorns growin in rings around the circumference of the tree.

Very tall trees, over 40' tall, although I am not sure that this is their max. height.

The fruits are the aforementioned long, pendulous "things." The parrots appear to love eating the insides. The insides of the fruit contain a downy, white feather-like filling (I've only seen the ones that actullay drop to the ground, so there may be seeds, or even meat, inside the fruits that the parrots eat before the fruits fall.

I was thinking that the tree may be related to the ceiba family. We had one in our backyard in Cuba, but his one does not seem to be as thick around the trunk as ours was.



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