an interesting plant

Walking down from hilltop holy site at Imo Giri, my friend Oni picked up a bit of the kapok plant.  Before cotton was widely available, the fluffy part of the kapok was used to make beds and pillows.  Oni was thinking of ways to fashion the  kapok into handicrafts. He runs a business which makes “flowers” out of other dried plants and arranges them as bouquets.  His wife, Ria, suggested that the seeds of the plant might make good animal feed.