Is kapok edible? What's the effect?

1. You can eat it, and cook porridge or soup with dry kapok; Sun-dried kapok has medicinal value, detoxification, heat clearing, cold dispelling and dehumidification.

2. Kapok is a specialty of southern China, and it is the city flower of Guangzhou, Kaohsiung and Panzhihua. Flowers fell behind, and many flowers fell under the tree. The flowers did not wither, nor did they wither. They left the world bravely. Why is kapok called "hero flower"? Because it is red but not kitsch, its thick trunk, indomitable posture and heroic grandeur, the color of flowers is as red as the backbone of a strong man and as red as the blood of a hero.

3. It belongs to tropical tree species, likes high temperature and high humidity climate environment, and has low cold tolerance. When it encounters a long-term low temperature of 5~8℃, its branches suffer from freezing injury to avoid frost. Guangzhou and Nanning in southern China can safely overwinter in the open field in normal years, and are vulnerable to freezing injury in cold years. In the northern part of South China and even the vast areas of North China, only potted plants can be planted, and they should be moved into greenhouses or indoors in winter, and the room temperature should not be lower than 10℃.

The origin of these trees is unknown, but they may have originated in India. It is widely planted in South China, Taiwan Province Province, Indochina Peninsula and Nanyang Islands with immigrants. According to ancient records in China, Zhao Tuo, king of South Vietnam, presented a kapok tree to the Han Dynasty in the 2nd century BC. Kapok is divided into white kapok and red kapok.