| Beneath the brown velvet of the seed capsules, a white kapok of cottony seed-parachutes packs the core. |
| One striking feature of this tree is the pale, cottony down on its twigs, which sometimes persists three or four years. |
| They are silky on the wrong side, and when the wind blows through the foliage it turns a soft greyish white, like a cottony mass. |
| Many are green while some are red or black or covered with a cottony secretion. |
| Additionally, as one might imagine, the cottony head of the plant made an excellent all-purpose swab. |
| Researchers raised vedalia beetles to use in orchards that had outbreaks of cottony cushion scale. |
