Nor was it cotton balls falling from the sky. It was our own special warm-weather snow, the cottonwood tree's fuzz, or seed pods, carried on the wind. The trees each produce thousands of drifting ...

Now, as the seed pods of the female trees burst and the ... Being a fast-growing tree, an eastern cottonwood could be 60 feet tall in 15 years. Its life span is short. At 75 years, it is an ...

The annual dropping of seed pods and blowing of fluff was much like ... but last week it was full of complaints about cottonwood fluff. Essentially people wanted to know what you can do when ...

In some parts of Metro Vancouver like Surrey and Port Moody it may seem like it’s snowing at times. But all that white fluff blowing around is from cottonwood trees.

Most years, cottonwood trees produce relatively few seeds, but occasionally they’ll see a masting year, which brings a drastic increase in seed production, and with it, a drastic increase in fluff.